What firewire chipset is shipping in the new 3Ghz imacs?

Given the known issues with the Agere/Lucent FW chipset (rendering a lot of firewire audio interfaces useless) I was wondering if the new 3ghz imacs are now shipping with the TI (Texas Instruments) Firewire chipset. Does anyone know?
I believe if you hold down command-s while booting you can read this info off the screen. If anyone with one of these new imacs could confirm which chipset it ships with, I'd appreciate it. And if it's the TI, I'll finally order one. Thanks.

I have the 3.06 GHz model and it came with an Intel E8435 processor.
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I'll look some more for the FW info.

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