Mobile Intel® PM55 Express Chipset

The mobile Intel® PM55 Express Chipset is part of the mobile Intel® 5 Series Chipset family providing a new single chip architecture delivering:

• Intel® Management Engine Ignition Firmware support
• Intel® Matrix Storage Technology 8.9

Features and benefits

Intel® Management Engine Ignition Firmware support	Provides essential platform functionality such as clock maintenance and thermal reporting
SATA 3 Gb/s port support	Support for 6 SATA ports for HDD/SSD expandability
PCI Express* 2.0 x1 support	Support for 8 PCIe ports @ 2.5GT/s PCIE interfaces, providing connectivity options
Integrated high speed USB 2.0	Support for 14 USB 2.0 peripherals for maximum 40x faster data transfer and backward compatible to support USB 1.1 devices
Intel® Matrix Storage Technology 8.9	Enables enhanced performance, power management and data protection for the storage subsystem

Related products

Chipsets	Intel® HM55 Express Chipset1 Intel® HM57 Express Chipset¹ Intel® QM57 Express Chipset¹
Processor	Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition Intel® Core™ i7 processor Intel® Core™ i5 processor2
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet MAC	Hanksville LAN

¹ Intel® HM55, HM57 and QM57 Express Chipsets are an alternative chipset solutions providing enhanced security and manageability features available only in Q1’10.

² Intel® Core™ i5 processor support available only in Q1’10.