Intel's CSI, faster than McFly

[Thrax]

It's no secret that Intel's continued reliance on a northbridge-based bus architecture is a miserable way to do front side BUSiness. When compared to hypertransport, routing I/O through the CPU to the various parts of the board, rather than permitting direct communication, is a draconian tactic.

Enter Intel's Common System Interconnect, which will introduce not only a HyperTransport-like bus with <i>amazing</i> bandwidth, but will also herald an IMC for Intel CPUs. With Intel's tremendous power and the addition of CSI and an IMC, there's no telling what sort of bandwidth could be summoned.

It's like Godzilla. Except for your system bus... And Tokyo is the benchmark. But if you don't believe us, the individual who's done some serious sleuthing on the matter has a full writeup here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/28/intel_csi_kanter/).

&lt;Neo&gt;Whoa.&lt;/Neo&gt;

[mas0n]

If this debuts around the same time as Hyper Transport 3.0 it looks to be the inferior tech from what I can see, but it is good to see Intel move away from the FSB architecture and also implement an IMC.

I'd like to see AMD and Intel work together to create a universal system interconnect & CPU socket. Remember the good ol' Socket 7 days?

[Zuntar]

The whole Intel / AMD thing is going to get nastier over the next year. As long as the consumer comes out ahead, I don't really care.

[muddocktor]

The whole Intel / AMD thing is going to get nastier over the next year. As long as the consumer comes out ahead, I don't really care.

Yep, I think so too. And I hope that AMD can come back from the deep hole they have dug themselves into in the last year or so. I enjoy the great prices that serious competition brings on the processors.