AMD plans September publication A68 chipset, motherboard manufacturers do not like-A68 chipset, AMD-IT information AMD plans September publication A68 chipset, motherboard manufacturers do not like

According to the upstream supply chain industry sources, AMD plans to release a new chipset A68 in September this year, it is currently accelerating the digestion of its CPU in stock.

However, still has the AMD motherboard chipset available from stock companies are against this plan, and unwilling to support the new chipset.

AMD did not comment.

People familiar with the matter said, after Haswell Refresh of Intel processors were released, the desktop PC market demand for AMD CPU's have been affected, so AMD was forced to take action to defend its market share.

Entry-level A58 AMD chipset does not support USB 3.0, the target market is the market of the product, but market demand has been relatively sluggish after it is published. A68 were not in AMD's product plan, it added, the product price will be $ 2 trillion higher than the A58.

People familiar with the matter said, most motherboard manufacturers currently has inventory levels remained high on the A58 and the A78 chipset, expected AMD releases A68 chipset's decision will affect their future product plans.