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PCI 3.0 Coming; Intel gets the Green Light.

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the faster-faster-and-faster dept.

pjbass writes "This story on ZDnet discusses the next I/O subsystem planned for PC's. It will be PCI 3.0 once making it to the consumers, but it is now known as Arapahoe, or 3GIO. Intel Corp. is responsible for making the technology, and boast its performance will be about 6 times that of PCI2.x, getting up to speeds of 6.6 gigabytes per second of bandwidth initially, with promises to scale more once the technology is mainstream."

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  1. Re:Okay, Good. by mabinogi · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a little suggestion...

    Read the article.....

    It at least answers your first question....

    And I really doubt that Intell will prevent VIA from using it.....it would sort of defeat the purpose, it's intended to REPLACE PCI....and the only way it'll do that, is if it can be used in every PC....
    Currently PCI is used not just in Intel machines, but Macs, Sparc workstations and others....

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  2. But is it backwards compatible? by beowulf_26 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Will you be able to sneak your old PCI cards into this newfangled technology or no? I don't remember seeing anything in the article about that... If not, I think that it will hamper the transition to this new standard...

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  3. Should be noted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    One thing the ZDnet story doesn't mention is that unlike PCI 2.x, 3GIO will use point to point connections instead of a shared bus.

  4. Re:AMD's HyperTransport by 10Ghz · · Score: 2, Informative

    I belive that HyperTransport is better suited for connecting northbridge-southbridge-CPU together. 3GIO is for connecting add-in cards (sound-cards etc.). They do the same thing but in different areas.

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  5. AMD's HyperTransport by dg1kjd · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here is a link to a FAQ about AMD's HyperTransport technology.
    It works at 6.4GB/sec and looks to me like a direct competitor.

  6. no silicon years off - EV6 AKA hypertransport by johnjones · · Score: 2, Informative

    this is just getting the spec out the door

    no silicon yet so many companies do not even have access to what it is

    their are no third partys supplieing interfaces or anything BUT lots of archs with bus problems i.e. Bandwidth problems

    EV^ aka hypertransport is here right now and their is third part silicon SUN and apple will use it to link AGP Memory CPU because it is just faster !

    nice but intel still have bandwidth problems now and look to drop their prices by up to 50 % today on the P4

    the BUS is the problem for them and thats where AMD rules

    SUN has also had faster machines simply because the BUS was faster

    oh well

    regards

    john jones