Asus, Gigabyte and Sandy Bridge

Major motherboard-maker Asus has begun selling Sandy Bridge motherboards with the revised chipset, and Gigabyte will start shipping Sandy Bridge notebooks in March. Digitimes says,

“Asustek has launched three new notebook models based on improved Sandy Bridge chipsets including the flagship CG8350 with an Intel Core i7-2600 processor, 6GB DDR3 memory and a Nvidia GeForce GTX460 discrete graphics card at NT$46,900 (US$1,597), targeting the high-end market; and the mainstream CM6650 with an Intel Core i5-2300 processor and 4GB of memory plus support of USB 3.0 and SATA 6GB at between NT$17,900-26,900.”