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The Shadow

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Mar 25, 2003
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Hi,
I keep reading speculation about how the new PM motherboards will incorporate hypertransport technology. Can anyone explain what this is and its implications for performance etc. Also what are the other competitors in the industry doing in this regard. :confused:

Many thanks.

P.S. Due to time diff's, I may not acknowledge posts for a while. It's late!:eek:
 
hyper transport has to do with alleviating bandwidth limitations and increasing data flow.

go here and you can get a good brief explanation that should make sense (hopefully:D )
 
Intel's P4's also have hyper-transport, but i think it's only on their newer chips, the P4 3.06GHz and upwards.

you could check out intel.com to see if you can find some more info there, and www.arstechnica.com has a heap of articles that explain RAM, and stuff like system architecture. they might have something on hyper transport as well.
 
Originally posted by cb911
Intel's P4's also have hyper-transport, but i think it's only on their newer chips, the P4 3.06GHz and upwards.

you could check out intel.com to see if you can find some more info there, and www.arstechnica.com has a heap of articles that explain RAM, and stuff like system architecture. they might have something on hyper transport as well.

You're thinking of Hyperthreading where one procesor emulates two, Hypertransport is someting entirely different.
 
Originally posted by scem0
any microprocessor manufacturer is researching this... if they
plan to be around for long... :rolleyes: ;)
:eek:

You saying that IBM is going to vaporize because they support Rapid I/O?

I won't ask that about Motorola, since I can guess what you'd answer to their Rapid I/O support would be. :p
 
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