It appears that SerDes cells will be a competitor to AMD's HyperTransport, as both technologies seek to provide internal connection of components to enable faster external connections, such as Infiniband. We could see Via and AMD online with HyperTransport and Intel and Rambus going with SerDes in future PC motherboards.
Competition is a good thing.
AMD has over 100 people signed up to use HyperTransport, but Intel is sticking with SerDes cells, and they may be able to convince many other large server manufacturers to do the same. Read more in our full news item . Comments are limited to 2000 characters, and are posted immediately. Standard HTML link code can be used to create links. All rights reserved.