We already reported the characteristics of south bridges AMD series sB9xx. These microcircuits will propose the support of six ports SATA-600, but the fourteen USB will correspond only to the standard version 2.0. Thus, the desktop platform AMD following generation will propose USB 3.0 support only after the use of discrete controllers .
Today appeared slides from official AMD documents, they confirm the release periods of socket AM3+ platform. Since the processors zambezi will appear in the second quarter, the chipset series AMD 9xx will be presented within the comparable periods.
In the second quarter 2011 the following chipset will appear: AMD 980G, AMD of 990FX, AMD 990X, AMD 970. The first will be equipped with built-in graphic core with directX 10.1 and UVD 2.0 support, working at the frequency 560 MHz. Chipset AMD 990FX will support the technology crossFire X according to x16 + x16, chipset AMD 990X will be limited to x8 + x8.