NEC's LSI Chip Interface Five Times Faster Than PCI Express

KingFishKingFish
edited February 2005 in Science & Tech
NEC and its subsidiary NEC Electronics Corporation announced a fast serial interface circuit technology for large-scale integration (LSI) system chips that are targeted at future broadband networks and high-end computers.
The new technology enables data transmission at a speed of up to 12 Gbit per second between LSI chips, or between equipment employing LSI chips. The bandwidth of the new interface is about three to four times faster than conventional transmission rates in current high-end servers or routers, despite the use of legacy printed board traces, wires or cables, NEX claims. This rate is also five times faster than the PCI Express standard popularly used for high-speed transmission in personal computers.

NEC did not provide further details about the interface, but said that it uses a duobinary transmission technique, that commonly is used for "several hundred megabits-per-second communication in a hard disk drive".
Source: Tom's Hardware Guide

Comments

  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited February 2005
    too bad no one will use it....

    The only place it'll see light of day is in a computer built by them (ala the earth simulator). Unless Intel and cohorts develops the spec (like ISA, PCI, CRN, AGP, PCI-X, PCI-express, etc, etc), nothing will come of it in the PC and large scale server markets.

    Sorry NEC, but you don't matter.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited February 2005
    Yeah it's too bad... but they came a little too late, or early however you want to see it.
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