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AMD and Seagate will demonstrate a next-generation 6-Gbit/s SATA interface Monday in New Orleans, the companies said. Neither company is announcing products based on the technology yet, Seagate executives said. The 6-Gbit/s SATA technology will be part of a future AMD south bridge chip, and may ...
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AMD and Seagate to show off 6Gbps SATA
DV Hardware — ... AMD and Seagate announced they'll be showing off the next-generation 6 Gbit/s SATA interface at an event in New Orleans. SATA III will offer a maximum theoretical bandwidth of 750MB/s, double as much as SATA II's 375MB/s. The new SATA spec may seem unnecessarily at the moment, but Seagate claims flash-based drives will take advantage of it much sooner than you think. ...

AMD and Seagate To Demo 6GB SATA
AMDZone Frontpage — Extremetech reports that AMD and Seagate will demo 6GB SATA next week. Here is the scoop. AMD and Seagate will demonstrate a next-generation 6-Gbit/s SATA interface Monday in New Orleans, the companies said. Neither company is announcing products based on the technology yet, Seagate executives said. The 6-Gbit/s SATA technology will be part of a future AMD south bridge chip, and may appear in solid-state-disc drives before it becomes part of a conventional hard drive. The target markets will be gaming PCs and servers, executives said.

AMD and Seagate to Demo 6 Gbps SATA Interface
techPowerUp! — ... will benefit solid-state drives before they can significantly help conventional hard-drives. "Flash will take advantage [of the new interface], in applicable markets, sooner than you think," said Marc Noblitt, senior marketing I/O development manager for Seagate. "Six-gig is a perfect interface. OEMs tell us that they want to have the same SATA interface for flash as for a 1.8-inch rotating drive, so they can swap in a drive for flash, or vice versa." he added. Source: ExtremeTech

AMD, Seagate Demonstrate 6-Gbit/s SATA interface
VR-Zone ArticlesExtremetech reports that AMD and Seagate will demonstrate a next-generation 6-Gbit/s SATA interface on Monday. Here are some of the interesting features that the new interface will bring Offering twice as much bandwidth as the existing SATA interface, the 6.0-Gbit/s also contains improved streaming characteristics that 3.0-Gbit/s drives with Native Command Queuing lacked. In addition, a new power management specifcation allows the always-on SATA interface to power on and off, like older Parallel ATA drives. Seagate has also mentioned that the new 6-Gbit/s interface is needed ...

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AMD and Seagate to demonstrate 6Gb/sec SATA today
bit-tech.net 3/2/2009 — New technology will be primarily targeted at solid state disks before it hits the mechanical hard drive industry.
AMD, Seagate Show Off 6-Gbits/s SATAExtremetech
AMD and Seagate will demonstrate a next-generation 6-Gbit/s SATA interface Monday in New Orleans, the companies said.