Intel Tolapai – North meets South

Intel has been on the innovative side recently nailing AMD and other competitors with its new core micro-architecture lineup. It has not stop Intel from bagging more market share on other spaces like the embedded CPU market. By packing both North Bridge and South Bridge into a single chip, Intel manage to produce a new embedded chip called Tolapai using 65nm manufacturing to compete in embedded market against VIA’s C7 and AMD’s Geode.

The Tolapai is based on Pentium M and uses DDR2 memory controller with support from DDR2 400Mhz all the way to 800Mhz and could load up to 2GB maximum memory support. The chip will be available late this year clocked at 600Mhz, 1.06Ghz, and 1.2Ghz with TDP ranging from 13W to 25W.

Merged North and South Bridge, Intel to release Tolapai in late 2007 [via hkepc]