"Sunnyvale, Calif.—September 10, 2007— OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced production of the industry’s first Intel Extreme Memory modules, a new memory solution that implements a high-performance specification optimized and predefined for the impending Intel X38 chipset."

Okay, so we got ourselves another fancy name, just what does it mean? To make a long story short, it means easy overclocking for the masses. Until now, when you wanted to get over SPD (Serial Presence Detect) frequencies or under the latencies specified by it, you had to do it the hard way (manually). That requiered some knowledge and restricted the audience. With the new Intel chipset comes a new kind of SPD called Extreme Memory Profiles (XMP) that aims to replace the previous standar by allowing more aggressive timings and higher speeds to be automatically selected.

The OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Intel XMP Ready Titanium Edition specs are as follow: 

- 1600MHz DDR3 CL 8-8-8-27 (CAS-TRCD-TRP-TRAS)
- XMP Profile 1: 1600MHz 8-8-8     
- XMP Profile 2: 1600MHz 7-6-6    
- Available in 1GB modules and 2GB kits     
- Unbuffered     
- Titanium Z3 XTC Heatspreader     
- Lifetime Warranty     
- 1.8 Volts     
- 240 Pin DIMM     
- Optimized for Intel X38 boards

I'm not sure this will be very successful, because the enthusiast and overclocking community doesn't find anything useful here, and the general public is not interested in anything else than CPU clockspeed. Intel and partners will need to spend a lot on marketing.

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