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IBM, TI and others go for HyperTransport

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Julio Franco, Aug 11, 2003.

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  1. Julio Franco TechSpot Editor

    IBM, Texas Instruments, EMC and four other companies are joining the HyperTransport consortium this week, a move that will likely expand the places where the chip-to-chip connection gets used.

    HyperTransport is a protocol that, when embodied in silicon, shuttles data at a high rate of speed--6.4 gigabytes to 12.8 gigabytes per second--between different chips in the same box. It could be used to link a microprocessor with a chipset that organizes input/output functions, for example, or two communications processors in a router.

    Read more: CNet News.
    Julio Franco, Aug 11, 2003
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