The integrated version of Intel's Grantsdale chipset will tape out during the week commencing 29 September, if a development schedule posted on the web today is accurate.

Grantsdale-G has been designed for the 'Prescott' processor - the 90nm successor to the Pentium 4 - and is due to ship Q2 2004. Taping out is essentially the stage at which the chipset's design work has been completed. The next stage is to fab the thing and work on getting the bugs out of the silicon. That could easily take more than two full quarters to get right.

Source : The Register