DigiTimes is saying that ATi's awaited SB600 --with SATA2 functions among other improvments-- should be available en masse sometime next month. Billy Wang, vice president for Asia Pacific and China at ATI Technologies, stated yesterday that the company's new SB600 southbridge chip will be introduced in May. Wang was responding to recent speculation that ULi Electronics may no longer provide southbridges for ATI-based motherboard platforms, following its acquisition by ATI-rival Nvidia. Now, hopefully we'll see R580-based motherboards sporting SB600 in short order, but only time will tell.
