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Opus2000 23 August 2002

Ok..so Intel has the new Springsdale/Prescott combo coming out sometime next year...
What's next you might ask?
http://www.intel.co…"]3GIO[/]="http://www.intel.co…"]3GIO[/]

I just started reading about it and when it got to the point about
"PCI-X 533 runs at speeds up to 533 Mega transfers per second enabling bandwidth of more than 4.2 Gigabytes/second.Such throughput rates are more than sufficient to handle current
applications while also supporting future high-bandwidth add-in card connections to 10
Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA (SATA),
InfiniBand, RAID and cluster interconnects for servers and workstations." :p

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Tommy P. Sat, 08/24/2002 - 03:37

Man, I just skimmed over that link. Awesome. Intel is on track for sure:

During the past decade, PCI has been a very successful, general purpose I/O interconnect standard. However, demands of emerging and future computing models will exceed the bandwidth and scalability limits that are inherent in multi-drop, parallel bus implementations. Technologies such as CPU speeds that will exceed 10 GHz, faster memory speeds, higher-speed graphics, 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit LAN, 1394b, InfiniBand* fabrics and others will drive the need for much greater internal bandwidth.

Finally, something to break the ho-hum doldrums! And nice to have a company like Intel recognizing the need for speed in the I/O (when short sighted gurus like Anand could not).

Yep, makes sense Gary, small upgrades for me too until the next big thing breaks out. Gotta go back and read the rest...take brain, immurse in technoinfo...squeeze and repeat :p

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