Buses and Interconnects: The Next Generation

Posted by Hemos on Friday November 9, 2001 @08:37AM from the coming-soon dept.

mkarpinski writes "ExtremeTech has posted a nice overview of the next generation of peripheral buses and interconnects including PCI-X, InfiniBand, 3GIO, and HyperTransport. From the article, "All these future interconnects and buses have a few things in common. They use packet-based, point-to-point connections; in fact, InfiniBand implements a full switch fabric. They provide bandwidth in multiples of that offered by PCI. They decrease latency significantly, with HyperTransport and RapidIO showing the most dramatic decreases, crucial for their target communications and embedded markets. And all four strive to reduce pin counts in order to conserve power and system real estate." Open the floodgates!"

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one can only hope... by turbine216 · 2001-11-09 08:46 · Score: 3, Troll

...that only ONE of these standards actually goes mainstream and takes the place of PCI. This reminds me of the DVDR-W versus DVDR+W conflict that's going on right now. You've got multiple standards that are totally incompatible with each other, and yet neither of them has any true advantage over the other.

Hopefully one standard will emerge, so I can *safely* proceed with upgrading my PC hardware without fear of immeidate obsolescence.