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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 18, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 33
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Breaking News -
Networking:
EMC, IBM, Others Join
HyperTransport Technology Consortium
The HyperTransport Technology Consortium, the nonprofit industry
organization
that manages the HyperTransport technology specification, announced that seven
industry leaders and two academic institutions have joined the Consortium. The
new industry members include EMC, IBM, LTX, Media Fusion, National
Semiconductor, Network Appliance and Texas Instruments.
The Consortium has also created two new membership classes to allow broader
participation in the Consortium. In addition to current Promoter, Contributor
and Adopter classes, the Consortium has added Advisor and Academic classes.
The Advisor membership allows firms to participate in the HyperTransport
Consortium without exchanging IP rights and patents while the Academic
membership is free and is open to any accredited educational institution.
Academic membership provides access to the HyperTransport technology and IP
for educational purposes.
"We are delighted to have such key industry leaders join the Consortium,"
said
Gabriele Sartori, president of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium.
"HyperTransport technology is now firmly entrenched in the electronics
industry and we look forward to their participation in shaping the evolution
of HyperTransport technology to meet the bandwidth and performance
requirements of next generation systems. These new members strengthen the
technology's position as the universal, royalty-free, chip-to-chip
connectivity technology of choice for today's systems. Their participation
will buttress analysts' predictions that HyperTransport port shipments will
grow from over 30 million ports in 2003 to over 200 million ports in
2006."
"HyperTransport is one of many I/O technologies that is rapidly becoming a
standard chip-to-chip communications technology for high-performance
processors and subsystems," stated Lisa Su, director of Power PC and emerging
products at IBM Microelectronics. "We are pleased to provide HyperTransport
along with other leading I/O technologies to our customers requiring low
latency and high bandwidth."
"HyperTransport technology is gaining traction in the marketplace as the
first
of the high-bandwidth I/O technologies to reach volume shipments," said Jim
Turley, senior analyst at SiliconInsider. "With major industry participants
such as IBM, National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments joining the
Consortium, it seems that the Consortium has widened its reach across the
entire semiconductor industry. With system makers like EMC on board, it is
likely that any new developments will support computing, communications and
storage needs from both a chip and system-level perspective."
HyperTransport technology is licensed on a royalty-free basis through the
HyperTransport Technology Consortium. It is a universal chip-to-chip I/O
connectivity technology that provides extremely high bandwidth, frequency
scalability, low-cost implementation and full software compatibility with the
legacy Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) and PCI-X I/O technologies.
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