Rapidlo Versus HyperTransport: A battle between equals or univtentional marketing confusion?

摘要

The Popular Way to increase bus bandwidth has for some time been to add lanes. However, this strate- gy seems to have reached the point of diminishing returns, as footprints, pin counts, and power consumption have increased to a point at which it makes sense to swing the pendulum from parallel back to higher speed serial lines. Enter HyperTransport and RapidlO.