Details of Intel's upcoming Ibex Peak chipset for the Lynnfield and Havendale processors scheduled for launch sometime in the latter half of 2009 have emerged, thanks to a leaked slide from an Intel presentation, and it looks like there will be a home and a business SKU of the chipset.

The code names for these two chipsets are Piketon and Kings Creek, where Piketon is likely to be a Q-series chipset if Intel sticks to its current naming conventions, while Kings Creek will be a P-series chipset. Judging by the Bloomfield chipset naming convention, we'd guess that we're looking at the P55 and Q55 here, although that's purely speculation at this stage based on past Intel naming schemes.

Due to the memory controller having been moved into the CPU with the Havendale also featuring integrated graphics, we're looking at a single chip solution in both cases here. This doesn't mean that there are no surprises at hand, as both new models have some interesting features.

Starting with the basics, both model will offer eight PCIe lanes, six SATA ports with RAID, 14 USB 2.0 ports, integrated Gigabit Ethernet MAC and HD audio support. So far the only new thing is the addition of two extra PCIe lanes over the ICH10 and Intel has also carried over its remote wake and remote PC assist technology from the ICH10 for the Kings Creek chipset. There's also support for some kind of NAND flash memory and something related called Braidwood, but we don't have any details as to what this is for at the moment.

The Piketon will feature more corporate features, such as Intel active management technology with support for hardware KVM redirection, Intel anti-theft technology and integrated TPM.

There are also some specific Havendale features such as support for DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort and SDVO, but oddly enough there's no mention of D-sub support. The chipset may or may not have support for HDMI codec content protection at launch.

Speaking of which, according to the leaked slide, the chipsets are set for an August/September launch next year.

You can find the slide here.