In the first quarter of next year, AMD plans to add support SATA3 in a series of chipsets SB800. If this is indeed the case, the AMD chipsets have all the chances to catch up with one falls on the productivity solutions Intel. According to rumors, despite the fact that SB800 chipsets will support SATA3, to support USB 3.0 will need to build a separate fee to a third-party chip.

In turn, manufacturers of motherboards have reported that, in order to support SATA3 on motherboards with Intel chipsets will use third-party chips, for example, the production of Marvell. Unlike the graphics, in this case is unclear what method gives you more advantages: the use of built-in support SATA3, or a separate third party chip. Typically, the user is indifferent, how is support for SATA, and in many cases, the production of chips, Marvell providing benefits in terms of cost or time.

Nevertheless, the producers hope that the combination of technologies such as SATA3, USB3 and DDR3, allowing tempting to increase the speed of data transmission, which will increase sales of new high-performance computers and computer accessories.

Most likely, the first hard drives with a SATA interface will be issued by Seagate. Seagate has not yet confirmed this information immediately, but it plans to have mass production drives Serial ATA 6Gbit / s by the end of this year.