Asus P8B WS C206 LGA-1155 unveiled ahead of launch

A feature rich workstation board

Intel (INTC) might not have launched its new chipsets with support for the Sandy Bridge Xeon E3-series of processors yet, nor the processors in question, but details of upcoming motherboards keep trickling out and today we can give you the full specifications of Asus’ upcoming P8B WS boards.
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Renesas experiencing USB 3.0 host controller shortage

Too many re-worked Sandy Bridge boards

Being the only company with a product in the market with high demand can sometimes be a serious problem and for Renesas (RNECF) things are starting to look bad, as the company is low on supply of its uPD720200 USB 3.0 host controllers and is expecting to run out sometime in May.
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AMD’s A75 and A70M FCH gains USB-IF approval

First USB 3.0 chipset implementation certified

We don’t have a lot of details at hand, nor has AMD (AMD) or the USB-IF issued a press release on the matter, but according to the USB-IF product database, AMD has gained USB-IF certification for both of its upcoming high-end Llano chipsets with integrated USB 3.0 support.
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Some thoughts on the USB-IF and USB certification

A rant about an industry standards organization

A couple of weeks ago, yours truly wrote a news story relating to Texas Instruments (TXN) gaining USB-IF certification for two of its upcoming USB 3.0 host controllers that reflected on the fact that none of its smaller competitors have achieved certification, yet all of them are already shipping silicon.
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Intel’s Sandy Bridge Celerons video features fused off

Lower cost means fewer features

In as much as we appreciate that Intel (INTC) is selling a range of CPUs and some of them have had certain functions fused off in the manufacturing process to create a range of models, something that has been done for years, we’re none too impressed by Intel’s latest move.
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