Press Release: HyperTransportTM Technology Consortium Welcomes FuturePlus Systems, LSI Logic, MindShare, Mindspeed Technologies, QLogic QuickLogic and SiPackets
Posted By Kathy Smith
Date: January 16, 2002
Consortium continues to gain momentum as prominent computer and communications
companies join to support the future development and adoption of the
HyperTransport I/O link specification; members demonstrate technology
implementation at distinguished industry conference.
SAN JOSE, Calif., January 15, 2002 - HyperTransportTM
Technology Consortium, founded to develop, promote and manage specifications of
the HyperTransport(tm) I/O link technology, today announced the addition of
several new members including: Contributor members FuturePlus Systems and
QuickLogic; and Adopter members LSI Logic, MindShare, Mindspeed Technologies,
QLogic and SiPackets. To date, the consortium has grown to 30 members that are
driving the adoption of HyperTransport technology within the computer,
networking and telecommunications industries.
Demonstrating that HyperTransport technology is "here and now," the consortium
is participating as a Title Sponsor at the upcoming Platform Conference on
January 23 and 24, 2002 at the Silicon Valley Conference
Center in San Jose, Calif. Attendees will experience a first hand, in depth look
at how this interconnect technology is being implemented by members like
Broadcom, NVIDIA, AMD and Acer Laboratories, Inc.
As interest in the I/O specification continues to grow, HyperTransport
Technology Consortium offers Contributor and Adopter membership levels based on
how actively the member chooses to participate in the various
technical and marketing activities. Upon joining the consortium, all members
receive a royalty-free license for the HyperTransport specification and gain
access to all of the available Intellectual Property (IP) based on the
technology.
"Our Embedded Standard Products (ESPs) provide significant time and cost
savings, and increased performance and flexibility to the engineers who design
many of today's advanced electronic systems," Peter Feist, vice president
worldwide marketing for QuickLogic. "HyperTransport I/O link will be an
extremely beneficial specification for these designers. We are pleased to be a
Contributor member of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium and look forward
to promoting industry-wide implementation." "We plan to continue publishing the
HyperTransport technology as an open interconnect standard, so companies can
more easily evaluate the high-speed HyperTransport link within their next
generation designs- and ultimately join the consortium to drive industry support
of the specification," said Gabriele Sartori, president of HyperTransport
Technology Consortium. "We have enjoyed tremendous momentum since we established
the consortium in July and expect to see this continue through 2002."
About HyperTransport Technology
HyperTransport technology is here and now; a
high-speed, high-performance, interconnect for integrated circuits that provide
a universal connection designed to reduce the number of buses within the system.
It provides a high-performance link for networking and embedded applications,
and enables highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It is designed to enable
the chips inside of PCs, servers, networking and communications devices to
communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than existing bus
technologies. HyperTransport technology enables system designers to develop very
complex, high-performance, scalable networking topologies through switching
technology, while maintaining and improving the scalability and performance of
their existing legacy PCI infrastructures.
About HyperTransport Technology Consortium
HyperTransport Technology Consortium is a nonprofit
corporation managed by its members. The consortium promotes the common business
interests of providers to the networking, telecommunications, computer and
high-performance embedded application through the conduct of a forum for the
future development and adoption of the HyperTransport specification.
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 HyperTransport Technology Consortium.
Companies interested in the HyperTransport specification are invited to join the
consortium. Members of the consortium pay annual dues and receive a royalty-free
license to HyperTransport IP, gain access to
technical documentation and may attend consortium meetings and events.
To become a member, visit the consortium Web site at
www.hypertransport.org. Please
review the Bylaws of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium, and complete the
online membership application.
HyperTransport is a licensed trademark of the HyperTransport Technology
Consortium. Other product names used in this publication are for identification
purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies.
Contact
Jason H. Khoury
Benjamin Group
180 Montgomery Street, Suite 940
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415.354-8391
Fax: 415.399.9147
Email: jason@benjamingroup.com
www.benjamingroup.com
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