AMD A68 chipset coming in September?

Posted on Monday, August 11 2014 @ 15:29 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

DigiTimes heard rumors that AMD's new A68 chipset may start shipping in September, even though motherboard makers are hesitant to adopt the chipset as they still have high inventories of AMD's existing chipsets.

After the release of Intel's Haswell Refresh processors, demand for AMD's CPUs in the desktop market has been significantly impacted, prompting AMD to take actions to defend its market share, the sources claimed.

AMD's entry-level A58 chipsets, which does not support USB 3.0, target the China market, but demand has been weak since their release, the sources said. The A68, which was not in AMD's originalroadmap, will be priced US$2 higher than the A58, the sources added.

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