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RE: So what happens...
By GreenEnvt on 11/4/2009 11:48:07 AM , Rating: 2
I believe all the article says is that Intel won't be releasing a chipset with it integrated for a while, so until they do all motherboards that come with usb3/sata6 using an intel chipset will also have additional chips for usb3 and sata6.

RE: So what happens...
By dagamer34 on 11/4/2009 12:52:22 PM , Rating: 2
Which basically means additional costs.

RE: So what happens...
By Taft12 on 11/4/2009 5:29:42 PM , Rating: 4
Are you saying Intel won't factor the cost of these features into their future chipset prices? That's quite some insider information you have!

RE: So what happens...
By leexgx on 11/5/2009 12:53:16 AM , Rating: 2
the USB 2.0 is norm Part of the south bridge, its only an matter of them putting USB 3.0 into it but they seem to be having some problems with making the USB 3.0 work as part as the south bridge, why its going to take them 1 year and bit seems bit long really as that may limit the use of USB 3 untill 2011-2012 (it has to be popular for companys to make stuff for it i guess USB 3.0 PCI-e cards will do but they take one slot up)

it will be cheaper having USB 3 part of the chip set then having an extra chip like now

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RE: So what happens...
By 457R4LDR34DKN07 on 11/5/2009 9:41:25 PM , Rating: 2
You can't really integrate this into south bridge because they generally only have 150 mb/s bandwidth. can't put it into northbridge for 55 chipsets because it is part of the processor uncore. As it stands intel can update the x58 nb but the 55 series it requires a faster bus likely 4x pci-e which would be direct from the processor uncore on the dmi.

RE: So what happens...
By mindless1 on 11/5/2009 11:43:59 PM , Rating: 2
While I have not kept up with the bandwidth of all chipset busses available in contemporary chipsets, I am fairly sure you are mistaken that there is only 150Mb/s bandwidth.

Intel's old Hub Link 1.0 to southbridges like ICH2 was 266MB/s, but today they are at least using 4X or 8X that, possibly about 2GB/s instead of 150MB/s.

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