Motherboard maker MSI has sent out an official statement regarding the current situation surrounding Intel’s error with the 6 series chipsets. The company says that it will work with Intel to get more information about the problem and that all sales of P67 and H67 motherboards, and computers will stop shipping.
“MSI has been informed by Intel about the design issues in the Intel 6 series chipsets. According to Intel the performance of some of the Intel SATA ports on Intel 6 series products can degrade over a period of 3 years. MSI takes the quality of our products very serious, so at this moment we are investigating product batches that may be affected and, meanwhile, have stopped all shipments to our distributors and resellers. Additionally, we asked resellers to hold sales of the Intel 6 series based MSI products to customers until the issue can be resolved.
At this moment we are together with Intel looking into a solution for customers who purchased an Intel 6 series based MSI product. As soon as we have more information we will announce this to our customers.”
Overall most of Intel’s partners are still working on getting all the necessary information on the error, not the least since Chinese New Year has caused some problem in the chain of information. It is at least clear that MSI won’t take anything granted and freeze all sales of Sandy Bridge-based products.
We will return when we know more and await official statement from other major companies.
MSI P57A-GD55 with Intel P67 chipset
