ZDNet meldt dat de spiksplinternieuwe ATA-133 standaard weinig ondersteuning krijgt. De standaard, dinsdag officieel aangekondigd door Maxtor, moet het doen zonder ondersteuning van Intel. Ook Seagate ziet er niet veel in. Gevolg hiervan is onder andere dat we geen Intel chipsets zullen zien met ondersteuning voor deze standaard. VIA en SiS staan echter wel achter de nieuwe ATA-133 standaard. Intel zal zich alleen bezig houden met Serial ATA, alhoewel het nog tot 2003 zal duren voordat het op de markt komt:
On Tuesday, Maxtor officially announced the ATA-133 storage standard. ATA-133 is an interface designed to bridge the gap between ATA-100 drives and Serial ATA, whose one-year delay at Intel was first reported by ExtremeTech.
However, the new ATA-133 interface won't be supported by Intel itself, the largest chipset manufacturer in the industry. An official at Seagate Technology also gave a thumbs-down to the new technology in favor of Serial ATA. IBM's Storage Systems Division remains undecided, as does Acer Laboratories, a smaller chipset house.
[...] The debate lies in the need for faster data transfer rates. Specifically, the question is whether hard-disk drives are pushing the limits of the 100MB-per-second ATA-100 interface. Officials at one drive manufacturer--one not supporting the standard--scoffed at the notion that data rates would push beyond 100MB per second by 2003, when Intel's fifth I/O Controller Hub (ICH-5) is due to ship. (Originally, the 150MB Serial ATA standard was due next year in ICH-4, but Intel officials confirmed a one-year delay last week.)
Met dank aan ^Mo^ voor het insturen van dit nieuws!