Asus has announced the first cards with the function IEEE 802.3az EEA. Under this name barbaric lurks a modified version of the Ethernet standard, known as "Energy Efficient Ethernet. The idea is simple, reduce the consumption of Ethernet link - in the case of using a speed of 1 gigabit per second - is quite high. For example, a bond that is not in use consumes about 0.5W, whereas the EEE will descend below 100 mW with technology that disables part of the chip. Also management "on the fly" speed link is also present, to switch to 100 Mbps whenever possible.

The cards are compatible based on AMD chipsets, in AM3, and uses a Realtek chip for managing the Ethernet. For now, the cards M4A89, M4A88 and M4A87TD are advertised as compatible. Note that the IEEE 802.3az EEA is primarily targeted at the professional world, with systems standby routers and especially the possibility of reducing the consumption of systems using the 10 Gigabit Ethernet / s, which consume considerably more than the models with 1 Gigabit / s and 100 Mbit / s used in the general public.