Re: Intel says no to permitting firmware redistribution

["Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wolfgang+gnus20041213T213437_(_at_)_dailyplanet_(_dot_)_dontspam_(_dot_)_wsrcc_(_dot_)_com>]

whb_(_at_)_ceimaine_(_dot_)_org (Will Backman) writes:
> PCI-x.  Standard PCI slot can't handle gigabit.  This puts a lot of
> pressure on using Intel, as they make a lot of the on-board stuff.

Pressure is good.

Another interesting bus is the hypertransport bus which is found as
the on-card bus for AMD64 motherboards.  It can do over 100Gbit/sec.
So far nobody brings it to a card-slot connector, but that's politics
for you.  In theory you could use it to make a darn nice non-blocking
router if you had a dozen 1Gbit hypertransport-speaking NICS for each
port.  I don't see how market pressures can prevent that from
happening for long.  The hypertransport propaganda "faq" page can be
found here:

  http://www.hypertransport.org/tech/tech_faqs.cfm

-wolfgang
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