Posted on Friday, February 05 2010 @ 19:09 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
claims Intel's next-gen 6 series chipsets will debut in Q1 2011. These chipsets will support the 32nm Sandy Bridge and while it's certain that the 6 series will finally introduce SATA 6Gbps support, it's still unknown whether USB 3.0 is included.
Since CPU has a memory controller, display and some audio features integrated, there is not much for Intel to do in Northbridge, but we still don’t know if Intel 6 series can make it in one chip, we still expect two chips.
The codename of the chipset is Cougar Point and we can only hope that USB 3.0 support is also there.
