The Photos and BIOS screens of the motherboard based on chipset Intel X48 are already available . It seemed that Intel will announce this chipset logic in the coming weeks. In addition to the subjective improvements like improving the overclocking capacity , Intel chipset X48 will offer the official support to DDR3-1600 and processors with 1600 MHz bus. It is known that many motherboards based on Intel X38 do well these functions , So the existence of more expensive chipset Intel X48 in these circumstances seemed doubtful.
According to associate , motherboard manufacturers do not rely on Splitting the chipset Intel X38 and X48 in various price niches. The pressure of major motherboard manufacturers company may report the announcement of Intel chipset X48 from January to February or March. In other word many manufacturers have a large quantity of chipset Intel X38 and they have to sell them before the release of X48 .
The absence of obvious rivals from Intel and AMD company can hold a bit the chipsets X48, since the first quarter is usually not associated with a period of active sales, and the market is starting to recover closer to the spring.