on the official Intel site appeared communication about stopping the production and deliveries of chipset sixth series (Cougar point) in connection with the detection of serious defect, which influences the work of devices with serial ATA interface. All dispatched from 9 January this year chipset by Intel company will be removed from sale, in the production is already neglected the new revision of chipset
The prolonged testing of systems on base of chipset series cougar point revealed, that the speed of some ports serial ATA is reduced. Problem touched exactly four ports (from the second on the fifth), which work in the regime SATA-300. Two ports SATA-600 (zero and first) do not have this defect ; therefore this problem generally can not touch do not touch the owners of notebook , since rare notebook uses more than two ports serial ATA. As explains Intel, in the remaining systems the problem can appear for three first years of operation with the probability from 5% to 15%, depending on the intensity of ports use.
Intel forecasts, that due to this issue the company will loose about $300 ml profits, and will spend about $700 ml. on repair and replacement of chipset. The owners of motherboard with LGA 1155 must solve problem with the replacement of defective product directly with the salesmen. The majority of motherboard middle class is equipped with additional controllers serial ATA . Related Products :
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