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Mind_Rebuilding   06-03-2006 at 03:45:14 AM

Common System Interconnect....

What are the specs or announcements?

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K8MAN   06-03-2006 at 03:48:05 AM
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With the progress and pure performance of HTT3.0 I wouldnt be suprised to see them give up on CSI and use it instead. Most recent roadmaps show 2008-2009 timeframe.

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ltcommander_data   06-03-2006 at 04:17:18 AM
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Even against HT3.0 CSI stands up pretty well actually.

http://www.realworldtech.com/page. [...] 5-2006#361

HT3.0 is up to 5.2GT/s and so on a standard 16-bit processor link that would yield 10.4GB/s. CSI is up to 6.4GT/s and on a 16-bit link would provide 12.8GB/s. Not all the features of CSI are known yet, so I don't know if it has valuable options like unganging, but CSI is very competitive bandwidth-wise. Latency is still unknown too. CSI is scheduled for release with Tukwila in 2008.

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DavidC1   06-04-2006 at 09:43:41 PM
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Common System Interconnect....

What are the specs or announcements?



Another thing is that it will allow Xeon MPs and Itaniums to be on the same socket, or so they say.

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Heyyou27   06-04-2006 at 10:41:27 PM
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It certainly would.

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9-inch   06-04-2006 at 10:44:39 PM
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With the progress and pure performance of HTT3.0 I wouldnt be suprised to see them give up on CSI and use it instead. Most recent roadmaps show 2008-2009 timeframe.



You are right on this one, but the fact is that intel is too stubborn and arrogant to even accept that AMD beat them in the interconnect race.
They should really consider adopting HTT and give up the whole CSI fiasco since many enterprises like SUN, CRAY, HP and IBM (DELL will join sooner than later) are supporting AMD's initiative.

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mesarectifier   06-04-2006 at 10:56:24 PM
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My opinion? You'd be hard pushed to find someone who's in the market for an Itanium (could just leave it there) who would think 'ahh, I'll get a Xeon first then save up/expand to Itanium'. Being able to use Xeon and Itanium on the same board is a non-event. Who would want that?

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