The PC will not need bandwidth of this capability for some time. This bandwidth is needed right now in the networking/telecommunications, server and storage area. With networking technologies pushing into and beyong the 10Gbs bandwitdth arena, technologies such as PCI-X and Infiniband are here just in time. Companies such as Mellanox are exploiting these technologies (Infiniband) just in time for applications in these areas.
It also leads to other potential ideas. What about truly shared memory? Being able to put core memory for multiple processors in a distributed system? RapidIO will help us tie multiple processors together and share memory and I/O resources, and they will not need to be inches away, but possibly many many feet. The possibilities are truly endless with what we can do with this bandwidth.
Routers typically use standard I/O busses such as PCI to route packets between various I/O interfaces and the central CPUS. We now can increase the bandwidth up to OC-192 and 10GE with a standardized interface. This implies lower cost ASICs with common bus interfaces. No longer will companies need to develop their own ASICs with proprietary interfaces to support bandwidths capable of 10gigs...
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The PC will not need bandwidth of this capability for some time. This bandwidth is needed right now in the networking/telecommunications, server and storage area. With networking technologies pushing into and beyong the 10Gbs bandwitdth arena, technologies such as PCI-X and Infiniband are here just in time. Companies such as Mellanox are exploiting these technologies (Infiniband) just in time for applications in these areas.
It also leads to other potential ideas. What about truly shared memory? Being able to put core memory for multiple processors in a distributed system? RapidIO will help us tie multiple processors together and share memory and I/O resources, and they will not need to be inches away, but possibly many many feet. The possibilities are truly endless with what we can do with this bandwidth.
Routers typically use standard I/O busses such as PCI to route packets between various I/O interfaces and the central CPUS. We now can increase the bandwidth up to OC-192 and 10GE with a standardized interface. This implies lower cost ASICs with common bus interfaces. No longer will companies need to develop their own ASICs with proprietary interfaces to support bandwidths capable of 10gigs...
Really cool technologies!
--Chris