The company won't manage to release the platform this month

Jul 19, 2013 06:12 GMT  ·  By

Originally, Intel's 8-series chipsets were supposed to be available to motherboard OEMs as soon as this month rolled around.

According to a Digitimes report, however, that won't happen, because the chipset is just not ready.

Not because Intel has hit a snag, exactly, but due to defects discovered in the implementation of USB 3.0.

Essentially, the USB 3.0 controller has an issue whereby USB 3.0 ports stop working after entering or leaving Windows sleep mode.

It's not as bad as the problem with USB 3.0 on the 6-series chipsets, since the failure only occurs under Windows 8, but it's still a big problem.

That said, motherboard and notebook brand vendors have begun to receive shipments of fixed chipsets, but they still need some weeks to adjust their designs or come up with new ones, hence the September-October ETA.