AMD Mulls Integrating USB 3.0 into Hudson Chipset
AMD Mulls Integrating USB 3.0 into Hudson Chipset
Posted 07/27/2010 at 7:46am
| by Paul Lilly
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As details of AMD's Hudson D1 -- the southbridge the chip maker will launch in tandem with its upcoming dual-core 32nm Fusion processors -- begin to trickle out, one thing still up in the air is how USB 3.0 will factor in. According to whispers among some notebook makers, there's a good chance AMD will integrate USB 3.0 into Hudson.
We won't have to wait very long to find out. The Hudson D1 chipset is expected to debut in the fourth quarter of 2010 and will primarily target ultra-thin notebooks and netbooks. USB 3.0 is somewhat of a rarity so far on mobile PCs, and with Intel taking its sweet little time pushing the SuperSpeed spec, something like this could give the Sunnyvale chip maker a leg up in a segment mostly served by Intel.
While nothing is yet decided, there's reason to believe AMD will get this done. AMD is already tapping into NEC to outfit its desktop boards with USB 3.0, and extending that relationship over to notebooks shouldn't be overly challenging.
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Cy-Kill
July 27, 2010 at 8:46am
Well, if they did it now, then it would force Intel's hand to do it as well, as I remember reading somewhere that Intel won't put USB3 into their chipsets until either 2011 or 2012.
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