Hypertransport Technology Consortium Reaches Member Milestone

SAN JOSE, CA -- HyperTransport Technology Consortium, founded to develop, promote and manage specifications of the HyperTransport I/O link, today reached the 51 member milestone with the announcement of eleven new members including: Actel Corporation, American Megatrends, ATI Technologies, Cavium Networks, Dolphin Technology, Multinode Microsystems, PLX Technology, Primarion, Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), Tektronix, and VIA Technologies. In addition, Cavium Networks’ NITROX Plus family of multi service security processors, NVIDIA’s nForce2 processing platform architecture, SiPackets’ SP1011 HyperTransport to PCI Bridge and Xilinx’s 800 Mbps Single-Ended Slave Intellectual Property core for the Virtex-II Platform FPGAs were also announced today. These products join a HyperTransport product portfolio that includes: programmable devices, cores and design services, bus functional models, protocol monitors, bus checkers, logic analyzer and test solutions. With over 30 HyperTransport-based products already announced, the consortium has established an extensive ecosystem of products and services to enable designers within the computer, networking and telecommunications industries to seamlessly integrate HyperTransport technology into their next-generation system architecture. For a full product listing, please visit: www.hypertransport.org/docs/HTT_product_tracker_071002_Platform_Conference.pdf “We are excited and proud to be reaching such significant milestones in less than one year of existence,” said Gabriele Sartori, president of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. “Working together, the consortium has been able to develop HyperTransport technology and address the new requirements of the computer, networking and telecommunications industries, while preserving the software investment that exists in PCI today.” HyperTransport Technology Consortium Welcomes New Members As interest in the HyperTransport I/O Link specification grows, the consortium continues to offer Contributor and Adopter memberships based on the level of member activity and participation in the various technical and marketing activities and working groups. Upon joining the consortium, all members receive a royalty-free license to build integrated circuits that incorporate HyperTransport technology. “Actel is committed to increasing the performance of next-generation high-speed communications designs,” said Yankin Tanurhan, senior director, IP solutions group at Actel Corporation. “Combining leading-edge communications interfaces, such as HyperTransport, with programmable logic enables designers to solve interoperability and bottleneck issues. Joining the consortium underscores our commitment to the development and adoption of the HyperTransport standard to solve these problems.” “Cavium's NITROX Security Macro Processor, which is in production today, is one of the first processors shipping with a HyperTransport interface,” said Jeff Twombly, vice president of marketing and sales at Cavium Networks. “We chose the HyperTransport interface on the basis of its high performance, robust electricals and wide acceptance. We are delighted to be part of the HyperTransport Consortium and look forward to closely working with other consortium members to drive interoperability and accelerate the deployment of this key technology across a wide range of applications.” “As a long-time leader in interconnect solutions and an active participant in a wide range of standards-setting bodies, PLX is exploring with great interest the developments in and applications of HyperTransport,” said Jack Regula, chief technology officer at PLX Technology. “Participating in the HyperTransport Technology Consortium enables PLX to share with the consortium its interconnect expertise and contribute to the efforts in extending and finalizing the HyperTransport specification.” “HyperTransport technology is an excellent fit with VIA's ‘Total Connectivity Strategy’,” said Richard Brown, director of marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc. “The high bandwidth, low-latency chip interconnect can deliver enhanced system performance across VIA’s platforms and will be a significant consideration in future chip designs.” Companies interested in learning more about HyperTransport technology and HyperTransport Technology Consortium can visit www.hypertransport.org. Consortium members are meeting in San Jose in conjunction with the Platform Conference on July 16 for the first HyperTransport Developers Conference.