HyperTransport Tech Consortium Publishes I/O Specification

If you're wondering just what HyperTransport is, how it works, and what benefits it claims to provide, the HyperTransport Technology Consortium may have just the reading material you're looking for. The Consortium just released the 1.03 HyperTransport specification for public downloads via the group's web site . The Consortium says that it published the specification to let designers of computer, networking, telecommunications and embedded applications evaluate the feasibility of using the HyperTransport link within their designs. HyperTransport is a high-speed, high-performance, interconnect for integrated circuits that is intended to provide a universal connection that reduces the number of buses within a given system. It provides a link for networking and embedded applications, and is said to enable scalable multiprocessing systems. According to the Consortium, it enables the chips inside of PCs, servers, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than existing bus technologies. The HyperTransport Technology Consortium itself is a nonprofit corporation managed by its members. AMD, API NetWorks, Apple Computers, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, NVIDIA, PMC-Sierra, SGI, Sun Microsystems, and Transmeta are the charter members that comprise the Executive Committee of the group.