Hypertransport?
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There has been marketing confusion between the use of HT referring to HyperTransport and the use of HT to refer to Intel's Hyper-Threading feature of their Pentium 4 based microprocessors. Hyper-Threading is known as Hyper-Threading Technology (HTT) or HT-Technology. Because of this potential for confusion, the HyperTransport Consortium always uses the written out form: "HyperTransport".
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http://www.computerforum.com/
Applications for HyperTransport
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http://www.computerforum.com/
Front-Side Bus Replacement
The primary use for HyperTransport is to replace the front-side bus, which is currently different for every machine (or some set of them). For instance, a Pentium cannot be plugged into a PCI bus. In order to expand the system, the front-side bus must connect through adaptors for the various standard buses, like AGP or PCI. These are typically included in the respective controller functions, namely the northbridge and southbridge.
A similar computer implemented with HyperTransport is more flexible, as well as being faster. A single PCI↔HyperTransport adaptor chip will work with any HyperTransport enabled microprocessor and allow the use of PCI cards with these processors. For example, the NVIDIA nForce chipset uses HyperTransport to connect its north and south bridges. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTransport
AMD developed and announced HyperTransport in 2001.
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http://www.computerforum.com/
Applications for HyperTransport
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http://www.computerforum.com/
Front-Side Bus Replacement
The primary use for HyperTransport is to replace the front-side bus, which is currently different for every machine (or some set of them). For instance, a Pentium cannot be plugged into a PCI bus. In order to expand the system, the front-side bus must connect through adaptors for the various standard buses, like AGP or PCI. These are typically included in the respective controller functions, namely the northbridge and southbridge.
A similar computer implemented with HyperTransport is more flexible, as well as being faster. A single PCI↔HyperTransport adaptor chip will work with any HyperTransport enabled microprocessor and allow the use of PCI cards with these processors. For example, the NVIDIA nForce chipset uses HyperTransport to connect its north and south bridges. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTransport
AMD developed and announced HyperTransport in 2001.
Thank that was some good info there...do you think they will come out with hyperthreading for the core 2 duo or leave it as it is? Is there any dual core cpu's with hyperthreading right now? I though I seen somewhere before intell was going to try that and then the next thing I know conroe is here.
Hyper-Threading Technology for Gaming and VideoThe Intel® Pentium® processor Extreme Edition combines HT Technology with dual-core processing to give people PCs capable of handling four software threads. HT Technology enables gaming enthusiasts to play the latest titles and experience ultra realistic effects and game play. And multimedia enthusiasts can create, edit, and encode graphically intensive files while running a virus scan in the background.
http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/
Dual core processing discussed there. I could assume that the Core 2 Duo would also utilize the same technology there as well.
http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/
Dual core processing discussed there. I could assume that the Core 2 Duo would also utilize the same technology there as well.
