Approximately in the second quarter 2011 AMD company will present chipset series hudson, which will ensure the support of USB 3.0 interface. Yesterday's acquaintance with AMD plans explained that Zacate intended for work with processors chipset Hudson D1 will support only USB 2.0 and USB 1.1.
The intended for work with processors zambezi socket AM3+ chipset series 9xx and the south bridges sB9xx will not also support USB 3.0 . The new possibilities of south bridges will limit to the support of 14 ports USB 2.0 and 2 ports USB 1.1. The support of six ports SATA-600 was inculcated in the chip SB850, in this plan SB950 and SB920 will not bring improvements. With the north bridge these microcircuits will be connected along the PCI express x4 channel generation 2.0. South bridge SB950 will differ from SB920 in terms of support to RAID 5 and FIS-based switching.
The north bridge AMD 990FX will support two slots PCI express x16 or four slots PCI express x8, besides the compatibility with processors socket AM3+ it will propose support to IOMMU technology , which increases the effectiveness of work with memory in the virtual platform. AMD 990X will be characterized by the support of only one slot PCI express x16 or two slots PCI express x8. South bridge SB950 adds the support of four channels PCI express x1, south bridge SB920 is limited to the support of two channels PCI express x1.
The deliveries of chipset AMD series 9xx will begin in the second quarter 2011; however, there is no precise information about the announcement periods of zambezi processors.