Intel has released a product brief of their upcoming Z390 Express chipset, which will sit above the Z370 Express chipset. This new chipset will support current 8th generation Core "Coffee Lake" processors, and will be ready for the next generation of processors as well.
Intel will be launching its Core "Coffee Lake" mainstream desktop platform later this year with the Core i7 and Core i5 processors coming first. Leaked company slides detail the chipset and one interesting thing was seen, the chipset itself puts out 24 PCI-Express gen 3.0 lanes.
Intel's 200-Series chipset is almost upon us. The company is expected to launch their 7th generation Core "Kaby Lake" processors and companion 200-series chipset this January right in the middle of the 2017 International CES. The 200-series is expected to have a handful of new features, but nothing extraordinary. The succeeding 300-series chipset could standout though.
New details have emerged regarding AMD's X370 chipset. This will be AMD's enthusiast chipset for the AM4 platform and will support the upcoming Summit Ridge processors. These processors are of course based on the new Zen architecture and offer a 40% IPC increase over Excavator and much higher efficiency.
According to rumors this on-die chipset is facing issues with its integrated USB 3.1 controllers. AMD has sourced the design for the integrated USB 3.1 controllers from ASMedia. ASMedia has a tendency of sourcing its integrated controller IP from third-party manufactures, for example in the past its SATA controllers and port-multipliers have been sourced from Silicon Image.
