Nvidia's Serial ATA Delayed
Spinner
Birmingham, UK
Nvidia's new south bridge, the one which is to support Serial ATA and Gigabit LAN is reported to have been delayed. The chip was scheduled to be released in late Q3, but it now probably won't start appearing on new motherboards, until October.
Original report - The Inquirer
Motherboard manufacturers are ready for this chip as their design is already finished. It's up to Nvidia now since it is the one to delay this product.
Nvidia is very close to having its Nforce 3 boards in retail, but we reckon you wont be able to get these boards before late September -- at least for the Athlon 64 versions since the CPU won't be announced before the 22nd of September.
Some motherboard manufacturers tell the INQ that they were under some pressure to use the A2 version of the chip with the Serial ATA controller disabled, and use a discrete Serial ATA controller from Silicon Image. But the mobo makers didn't want any more delays on their Hammerish products. They've been waiting long enough - that's their beef.
Original report - The Inquirer
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