HyperTransport?
- Thread starter SerialThriller
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It's when u go on a spaceship, hit the button that says "HyperTransport", and ZZZZOOOOMMM!! Blast off into space on your way to Uranus.
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Lifer
- Jun 27, 2004
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Psst, he did mean HyperTransport.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2353,00.html
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2353,00.html
AMD HOPS A HYPERTRANSPORT
The story: Advanced Micro Devices may have come up with an alternative way to speed up our systems, aside from creating ever faster chips. It's a scheme that could jazz up performance by alleviating a bottleneck in the way data is ferried between chips. Right now, the data moves between microprocessor and peripheral devices through a single input-output connection. But AMD's new HyperTransport technology will give each peripheral its own connection. AMD claims the technology is as much as 24 times faster than the now-standard PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus inside most machines. Click for more.
The skinny: Boy, for a one-time also-ran, AMD continues to give Intel a run for its money. It bested Intel by producing the first processor to break the 1GHz mark. Now it's putting Intel on the defensive again. AMD wants HyperTransport to become a standard, for use in servers, networking equipment, set-top boxes, even game consoles, and it's attempting to do so by giving it away free. I used to think that AMD founder Jerry Sanders should have been ridden out of his roost on a rail. Now, with AMD in such ascendance, I'm beginning to believe Sanders ought to re-think his just-announced plans to retire in April of next year.
So is this suppose to be some kind of alternative to PCIe?
The story: Advanced Micro Devices may have come up with an alternative way to speed up our systems, aside from creating ever faster chips. It's a scheme that could jazz up performance by alleviating a bottleneck in the way data is ferried between chips. Right now, the data moves between microprocessor and peripheral devices through a single input-output connection. But AMD's new HyperTransport technology will give each peripheral its own connection. AMD claims the technology is as much as 24 times faster than the now-standard PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus inside most machines. Click for more.
The skinny: Boy, for a one-time also-ran, AMD continues to give Intel a run for its money. It bested Intel by producing the first processor to break the 1GHz mark. Now it's putting Intel on the defensive again. AMD wants HyperTransport to become a standard, for use in servers, networking equipment, set-top boxes, even game consoles, and it's attempting to do so by giving it away free. I used to think that AMD founder Jerry Sanders should have been ridden out of his roost on a rail. Now, with AMD in such ascendance, I'm beginning to believe Sanders ought to re-think his just-announced plans to retire in April of next year.
So is this suppose to be some kind of alternative to PCIe?
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