14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that the Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro has just updated its chipset schedule for the upcoming year. The company is now reported to be planning the release of a new, low-end, integrated graphics processor chipset that is expected to be based on the company's RS780 architecture. The new IGP chipset is said to debut sometime in January next year, although a more specific release date isn't yet available at this time.
The new chipset from AMD will be dubbed 760G, and should ultimately replace the current 740G chipset in the low-end product market segment. It has been designed to provide support for Microsoft's DirectX 10 and Shader Model 4.0 API, but not for the Unified Video Decoder (UVD) and the Hybrid CrossFireX technologies. Also, AMD's upcoming IGP chipset will not provide HDMI and Display port connections, according to sources at motherboard makers, as cited by Digitimes.
As mentioned earlier, the new IGP has been designed to replace AMD's 740G chipset, and is expected to be accompanied by a new SB710 Southbridge.
The chip maker is also set to launch upgraded models of its 790FX and 790GX IGP chipsets, which are expected to provide users with AM3-computability and to be paired with the SB750 Southbridge. Intel's archival will launch an RS880 chipset in May or June 2009, which is to be paired with the aforementioned SB710 Southbridge. Later on, in July or August, AMD will launch a 770 chipset that will be paired with the SB710 chipset, to add support for AM3-based processors.
Further down the road, AMD is said to be planning the launch of an RD890 and SB800 pair. These chipsets aren't expected to make their debut on the market until sometime in September next year, by which time we should have already formed a pretty general idea on the performance capabilities of the company's upcoming Phenom II processors, which come with support for both AM2+ and AM3 mobos.