ASMedia to make mainstream PCI 4.0 chipsets for AMD

Posted on Monday, January 28 2019 @ 11:31 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
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DigiTimes heard that the partnership between ASMedia and AMD will continue even after the launch of AMD's in-house X570 chipset. Industry sources say ASMedia will develop mainstream chipsets with PCI Express 4.0 support for AMD, but these will not tape-out until the end of this year.
AMD has announced that its 3rd generation Ryzen desktop processors fabricated by TSMC with 7nm process will hit the market in mid-2019, which will be the world's first PC processor platform that supports PCIe Gen 4 with transmission speed doubling to 16GT/s. The PCIe Gen 4 is expected to become mainstream motherboard PCH in the future.

Despite specualtion that AMD will stop working with ASMedia in the development of next-generation 500 series motherboard PCH chipset after developing X570 motherboard chipsets on its own, ASMedia has maintained that its partnership with AMD in the next-generation 500 series chipsets will remain unchanged,as it has secured all the orders for mainstream motherboard PCH chipsets, the sources said.


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