Intel has a long history of producing excellent chipsets. They are stable, offer excellent features and are more versatile than competing chipsets. In fact, Intel’s 915/925 chipsets would’ve followed the same pattern of excellence, but combined with immature technologies at the time, high performance to price ratio and sub-par performance of its Prescott microprocessors, the platform failed to deliver. Apparently, you can’t blame the chipsets for this; maybe they would’ve been just as competitive as their predecessors, 865/875, if the aforementioned technologies didn’t hold them back. Even after that, the 915/925 chipsets has exciting technologies integrated in them for the best possible feature set.

That being said, in a meeting with few of our sources, they revealed that Intel’s chipsets are actually fairly impressive, but it’s their microprocessors that are holding back the platform’s true potential. The sources revealed that Intel has what it takes to deliver the right mix of technologies, but the past year hasn’t been too exciting for them.

A few motherboard makers, after being frustrated and discouraged by 915/925 poor sales, said that Intel’s new 955 chipset, and prices of DDR2 and PCIe falling throughout this year, it foreshadows a positive outlook on sales.

For the users out there, it’s only a matter of performance competence from Intel.