The federal organs OF USA FTC forbade Intel company to introduce substantial changes in the realization of work with PCI and PCI express interfaces at the processors level in the next six years, chipset sixth series oriented for consumer market will no longer support PCI . The right to preserve the native support of PCI will obtain only chipset, oriented to the corporate market segment : Intel q67, Q65 and B65.
As reports associate, motherboards producers will actually use for the realization of PCI support transitional bridges PCI express - > PCI. T
It is assumed that the most active suppliers of transitional bridges will become IDT and Nuvoton company, but to them for sure will be joined Texas instruments, PLX, Marvell and others. It cannot be excluded that a similar realization of PCI support will negatively affect the work of expansion card, sensitive to latencies , since the additional mediator in the form of transitional bridge will not add speed.