Intel Develops Hardware To Enhance TCP/IP Stacks

RyuuzakiTetsuya writes "The Register is reporting that Intel is developing I/OAT, or I/O Acceleration Technology, which allows the CPU, the mobo chipset and the ethernet controller to help deal with TCP/IP overhead."

Comments

finally...

[N5]

intel is working on something worthwile: a cure for the common slashdot-ing

and they say the drug companies are miracle workers ;)

yeah great

[Anonymous Coward]

soon it will be dedicated processor and RAM to deal with tcp, then a dedicated processor for the keyboard input, then a dedicated processor for the fans and a special dedicated processor on 12" PCI-X card for the extremely computationally intensive MOUSE, actually this will have it's own special dedicated path call 'AMP' or Accelerated Mouse Port. Mice of the future will need much more bandwidth than today. About 16 GB i/o so they need their own data paths.

And then there will be other enhancements like the tcp/ip one.

For instance a special accelerator card for Word and Internet Explorer will be developed.

Furious Linux users will demand their own technology, so one manufacurer will come up with a special card for running GNOME apps. This card will have 4 duel core 6 Ghz processors and allow Gnome to run at normal speeds.

Re:A good thing

[Quobobo]

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So finally!

[Trogre]

buying Intel really will make the internet go faster!