Intel restarts shipment of 6 series chipsets

At the beginning of last week, Intel announced that it had discovered that there were defects in the design of the 6-series chipset SATA 3Gbps interface circuit, which would completely stop the shipment of the chipset until the modified new version of the chipset went on the market. All 6 series chipsets currently on the market will also be replaced.

This news can be said to be the most explosive news of the global PC industry during the Chinese Lunar New Year. Subsequently, the major motherboard manufacturers have announced the recall of their own 6 series of products, the initial release of the listing of a large number of Sandy Bridge platform PC products have also postponed.

Intel also announced this week that it will fine-tune the handling of this incident. After discussions with downstream PC makers, Intel decided to resume the supply of 6-series chipsets to some PC makers from now on. These chipsets will only be used for "PC systems that will not be affected by this design problem."

Obviously, Intel is not yet able to come up with the modified new step-by-step Cougar Point chipset, and the products that are now shipping are still defective. However, we know that this design flaw only exists on the four SATA 3Gbps interfaces of the 6 series chipset. There are no problems with the two SATA 6Gbps interfaces. In other words, as long as PC manufacturers do not use SATA 3Gbps interfaces when designing products, only connecting SATA devices such as hard disks and optical drives to SATA 6Gbps interfaces or SATA interfaces provided by third-party chips will not be affected by this design problem. . From this point of view, it is believed that a large number of Sandy Bridge platform PCs (such as notebooks that only use two SATA interfaces) can normally use defective 6-series chipsets without any problems, and Intel decides these vendors. Restore supply.

As for the revised version of the chipset, Intel also said that it has begun production and is expected to start shipping in the middle of this month.