The chipset world has been surprisingly active in the last 6 months or so with releases from Intel, AMD and NVIDIA all converging in way I haven't seen in quite some time. AMD is finally using the ATI acquisition to release quality core logic designs and NVIDIA is finally updating the aging nForce 600-series of chipsets for the Intel platform. Intel's own X38 chipset arrived to the scene in early October even though news of the pending X48 chipset launch was already circulating in the press.
Source: PC Perspective
