Chipmaker Intel is expected to announce a new chipset today that will go into high-end PCs for corporate buyers.

A chipset is a collection of chips that connects the main processor in a computer to the main memory chips and other parts of the computer. The new chipset had been codenamed Springdale, but will officially be called the 865G. It's the second Intel-made chipset to support an 800-megahertz Front Side Bus and Double Data-Rate DRAM memory.

With the new chipset, data flow faster between the processor and other parts of the system, which should improve performance of things like graphics for games and video editing.

The chipset also supports a technology called hyperthreading, which lets a chip do two things at once--thereby speeding up overall performance.

Springdale will also support forthcoming Pentium chips from Intel, including a 3.2-GHz Pentium 4, and Prescott, Intel's next major upgrade to its desktop chip line that will be built on 90-nanometer technology instead of Intel's current mainstream 130-nanometer technology.

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