X-Bit Labs schrijft dat nVidia komende maand een nieuwe southbridge zal introduceren. De chip zal door het leven gaan onder de naam MCP-S. De MCP-S ondersteunt onder andere gigabit ethernet en Serial ATA. Verder zijn alle features die de MCP-T kent ook aanwezig waaronder een Dolby Digital encoder, USB 2.0 en FireWire. Moederborden gebaseerd op de chipset worden verwacht in midden juli:
Mainboards utilising the new chipset are currently scheduled to appear in mid-July. I believe these will be higher-end products for hardware enthusiasts and will not be too popular due to high price. The most feature-rich products have always been expensive, haven't they? And there have always been guys who got them.
We still remember NVIDIA's Marvin Burkett's promise to offer MCP with integrated WLAN controller by the end of the year, so, expect more to come from the Santa Clara, California-based design house of GPUs, IGPs, SPPs and MCPs.