Talk:Intel 5 Series

Terminology: Chip versus Chipset
The northbridge is a "chip", not a "chipset". A chipset is a collection of chips.

From Chipset:

"the term chipset often refers to a specific pair of chips on the motherboard: the northbridge and the southbridge"

At the same time, due to increasing integration, the industry can design single-chip implementations such as the Intel P55, H55, H57 and Q57 which, by tradition, are still referred to as a chipset. Insterested (talk) 20:47, 9 April 2010 (UTC)


 * I beg to differ that the Intel P55, etc are chips. They are chipsets. They have an I/O controller, real time clock chip, display chip, and a management engine.Nas Hashmi (talk) 02:05, 18 April 2010 (UTC)


 * The P55 is an integrated circuit. It integrates, on one chip, many devices including those you listed. Do you believe that the P55 package contains multiple integrated circuit dies? Insterested (talk) 16:49, 26 April 2010 (UTC)


 * The BD82P55 (PCH P55) is a chip--the PCH and primary component in the Intel® P55 Express Chipset (which also requires things like a CK505 clock source, etc.). P55 PCH is a single SKU of the Ibex Peak PCH family. P55 Express Chipset is part of the Intel Series 5 Chipset family along with X58 Express Chipset (which does not use a PCH). The confusion comes from Intel using "P55" (and "Series 5") to refer to multiple things--in a way you are both right. To mend such things just be more specific. 192.102.209.29 (talk) 16:39, 29 July 2010 (UTC)