Plans to Leverage HyperTransport Technology in Several System Platforms
SUNNYVALE, Calif., February 14, 2007 – The HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium, a
non-profit organization dedicated to developing, promoting and licensing the industry’s lowest
latency, highest bandwidth interconnect technology, today announced that Dell has joined the
consortium as a high-level member and will leverage HyperTransport technology in a number of
its powerful server and desktop product lines.
HyperTransport technology is a CPU-native interconnect standard that delivers efficient high
throughput with minimum latency between multiple devices including chassis, motherboards and
chips. This interconnect technology is designed to support high-performance appliances,
embedded systems, networking systems, PCs, workstations, gaming systems, servers and
supercomputers.
“Our enterprise customers expect standards-based solutions that deliver top performance and
, combined with optimized cost of ownership,” said Kevin Kettler, chief
processor scalability
technology officer, Dell. “By incorporating HyperTransport technology in many of our industry-
leading server and desktop products, we continue to deliver innovative systems that meet
customers’ requirements for high performance and scalable configurations.”
“Dell’s investment in HyperTransport technology validates the growing appeal of our interconnect
standard to mainstream enterprise computing environments,” said David Rich, president of the
HyperTransport Consortium. “As a world-leading computer system provider, Dell has the market
latitude to further globalize the reach of HyperTransport technology by delivering the lowest
latency, highest bandwidth and most future-ready system interconnect to data centers and to
individual users.”
“The HyperTransport 3.0 specification and the high-performance HTX slot interface standards
have sparked the influx of several new commercial and academic members,” said Mario Cavalli,
general manager of the HyperTransport Consortium. “Dell’s high-level Consortium membership
extends the already significant roster of top-tier system manufacturers that have contributed to
both shaping and reaping the rewards of our leading interconnect technology.”
About the HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium
The HyperTransport Technology Consortium is a membership-based, non-profit organization that
manages, promotes and licenses HyperTransport Technology. The HyperTransport Consortium
consists of more than 50 industry-leading member companies, including founding member
Advanced Micro Devices, Alliance Semiconductor, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, NVIDIA,
PMC-Sierra, Sun Microsystems and Transmeta. Membership is based on a yearly fee and it is
open to any company interested in licensing the royalty-free use of HyperTransport technology
and intellectual property. Consortium members have full access to HyperTransport technical
documents database, they may attend Consortium meetings and events and may benefit from a
variety of technical and marketing services, including the new, member-driven web portal, whose
business benefits are part of a wide array of services offered by the Consortium free of charge to
member companies. To learn more about member benefits and on how to become a Consortium
member, please visit the Consortium Web site at
www.hypertransport.org.
