Before I started this article I was sidetracked by a brief trip to Wikipedia. The reason for this trip was the lingering feeling that the block diagram below looked excessively old. It feels like X58 and ICH10/R have been with us a bit longer than usual. Turns out X58 launched way back in November of 2008 and ICH10/R launched back in June of 2008. Since then we've had some evolutionary technology upgrades with USB 3.0 and SATA 6 being the most important. Where's our ICH11R with at least SATA 6 support? Turns out we have to wait till Sandy Bridge in 2011 for a revision of either which means for now motherboard manufacturers have to turn to 3rd party solutions like Marvell's 9128 SATA 6Gb/s controller and NEC's D720200 USB 3.0 controller for support.