Details of AMD"s next-generation South Bridge chip, the SB700, have leaked out. With them, the chip maker"s plans for its latest notebook reference platform, codenamed "Trevally" - designed, it seems, to take Intel"s "Santa Rosa" Centrino head on. The gen comes via a Spanish-language report at ChileHardware. Apparently, Trevally comprises the said SB700, the the RS690T North Bridge and a Socket S1 Turion 64 X2 processor.
The RS690T - surely set to ship as the M690 if past hints at AMD"s new chipset nomenclature are anything to go by - provides not only an integrated graphics core with access to its own, dedicated DDR 2 graphics memory bank, but also PCI Express lanes for an 8x graphics card connection, a 4x link to the SB700 and a number of 1x links to other add-ins.