The Eaglelake developing is still on track, and the release date is unchanged, according to Intel. But the in initial launch the G45/G43 is in A2 status, graphic core running at 667MHz, and G45 do not support VC-1 hardware decoding.

After A-2, Intel will keep improve the Eaglelake and release A-3 version in the future. In this revision, not only some small bugs will be fixed in G45/G43, but also the clock of the graphic core will be raised to 800MHz, and VC-1 hardware decoding will be enabled for G45.

Though Intel have already sent out their chipset sample, A-3 sample still TBD. Intel will begin mass production of P45/P43, G45/G43 in the week 16, and the graphic driver release for partner will be a week later. The developing of the graphic driver is not satisfying, because in the launch day the driver will only support OpenGL 1.5, OpenGL 2.0 still unsupported. you have to wait till Q3 for a new driver release.