06-03-2010 09:24 PM - last edited 3 weeks ago by ROGBot
The 16-channel Indilinx's Jet Stream IC should have been the first to arrive on the market Q2 2010, yet now faces a significant delay. The product has been pushed back to 2011, possibly even late 2011. Instead, the company will release the 8-channel Barefoot 2 controller by the end of this year. Barefoot 2 will be an 8 channel controller with a maximum capacity of .
The move to push Jet Stream back seems to have a lot to do with Intel's lack of support for native ICH SATA 6G . With Intel out of the 6Gbps game now Indilinx doesn’t want the headaches currently playing out with other SATA 6G products on the market already.