Well, now Intel, Via & SiS are not the only ones to produdce chipsets for Intel
NVIDIA has joined & combined forces with Intel to launch Chipsets for Intel P4 Plateform, now we can have the great features, Rocking drivers of Nforce4 for Intel too
http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=23401
They will be out in 2005
Also coming to Intel is SLI, the Swiss Army Knife of NVIDIA, but only for rich peoples though.
Too bad soundstorm is dead now, but we will be having HD audio on this plateform too alongwith Onboard GeForce 5200 level graphics too, which will be included as it a minimum for longhorn