Intel & Vista Speeding Up SATA Adoption

Optical disc drive manufacturers expect Intel’s P965 chipset and Windows Vista to help SATA finally displace PATA in the desktop marketplace.

Because retail prices of SATA DVD drives or burners are 20-30% higher than those for ATAPI models with the same functions, many OEM/ODM clients have not adopted SATA for the time being, the sources noted. ATAPI is expected to remain as the mainstream standard in the first half of 2007, but Intel's P965 chipset and Vista are expected to increase the proportion of DVD drives using SATA, the sources pointed out.