AMD might be taking on the task of manufacturing its own chipsets again, starting with the X570 chipset set to launch alongside 3rd Gen Ryzen. Little tidbits from board manufacturers and system integrators over at CES would have us believe that AMD will be ditching previous chipset incumbent ASMedia and will instead opt to design and build its own PCH.

For the last two generations of AM4 motherboards, led by the X370 and X470 chipsets, AMD has relied on ASMedia, a Taiwanese tech company, to produce the motherboard PCH. You may well be familiar with it, the same company is responsible for USB 3.1 controllers for a whole bunch of motherboards when native support was lacking.

But that could be coming to an end with X570, which is more or less a return to the natural order of things. AMD incorporated ATI back in 2006, specialists in not just graphics processing units but chipsets, too. The ATI name died that day, but its expertise now lives within AMD’s large corporate umbrella.