According to taiwanese press Digitimes Intel early this week updated its chipset roadmap and decided to add a new Alderwood chipset to its Grantsdale family. Positioned as the flagship product in the Grantsdale line, the Alderwood chipset will be the successor to the 875P (Canterwood). The new chipset will be available in the second quarter of next year. It will support an 800MHz FSB (front-side bus) and DDR2 dual-channel memory, in common with the 875P. Intel launched the 875P in April. The chipset is the company's most expensive desktop chipset to date, priced at US$53 for a version with integrated software RAID and US$50 for a non-RAID version. The FOB (free on board) price of an 875P motherboard is over US$150 per unit, with some priced at over US$200. It is believed that the Alderwood will continue to help Intel attack the high-end DIY market and boost the company's average selling price (ASP).

Intel chipset roadmap, 2003-2005   2003 (Pentium 4) 2004 (Prescott) 2005 (Tejas) High End 875P Alderwood - Middle 865P Granstdale P Lakeport P 865PE - - 865G Granstdale G Lakeport G Entry 848P Granstdale GV - Granstdale GL -