Intel's G965 will integrate the company's fourth-generation Graphic Media Accelerator (GMA) graphics core and deliver a significant increase in 3D gaming and multimedia performance compared to Intel’s other chipsets with GMA 900/950 graphics processors, according to sources familiar with Intel’s product roadmap.

The G965 is one of the Broadwater chipsets supporting DDR2 800 memory that Intel has scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2006, with the P965 and G965 series for the consumer market and the Q965 and Q963 for the business segment.

With the ICH8 southbridge, the G965 will support Microsoft’s Vista operating system and Intel’s Conroe processors, whose launch is slated for September this year.

Intel’s G965 integrated chipset will feature “Intel Clear Video Technology,” which provides improved 3D multimedia capabilities including DirectX9, Shader Model 3.0, OpenGL 1.5, Advanced De-interlacing, MPEG-2 hardware acceleration and HDMI (high definition multimedia interface) output, the sources said. The G965 series also supports WMV9B high-definition video streams and the ProcAmp API, the sources added.

For the Viiv consumer PC platform, Intel’s G965 series will target the entry-level and mid-range segments, while its 975 line is focused on the high-end, extreme gaming market, according to the sources. ATI Technologies, Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies may be threatened by better performance from Intel’s G965 integrated chipset and could be under pressure to lower prices of equivalent chipset offerings, indicated the sources. However, the sources indicated that Intel may face tight capacity again and this would reduce the pressure on the competition

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