AMD will follow Intel and will add SATA Express in their new chip sets. SATA Express is the new upcoming interface for storage devices. Basically it is two SATA connectors bounded together. But SATA3 offers 6GB/s transfer rate and SATA Express offers 10GB/s. So this mean that two GB/s transfer speed has been lost somewhere on the road. But there are still benefits of it. Since on the market has been introduced PCI-Express solid stated drives (SSD) which allows better performance over SATA-connected device, the engineers of the big companies are trying to improve the storage device interfaces. This comes on the table especially after the improvement of the SSD technology. So for now the SATA-Express is something like doubled SATA3 interface.
The new SATA-Express and the old SATA3 connectors will be compatible and SATA3 hard-drive could be connected straight to the new connector.
Some companies like ASUS already said that their future motherboards will be SATA-Express compliant. AMD will pay to ASMedia for SIP (silicon intellectual property) for the rights to integrate the new interface controller straight in to its chips. In this way the price of the motherboard will be lower because no extra chips will be placed. And AMD will be paying licence fee for every chip with SATA-Express.
(ASMedia Technology is subsidiary of ASUSTek Computer)
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