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IBM, TI and others go for HyperTransport

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On August 11, 2003, 1:32 PM

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: [URL=http://news.com.com/2100-1008_3-5061901.html?tag=fd_top]CNet News[/URL].

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