EETimes bericht dat LightSpeed als eerste een PCI-X controller op de markt heeft gebracht. Hoewel wij PC gebruikers hier op zich weinig mee aan kunnen vangen, is het wel interessant om te zien wat deze nieuwe PCI standaard ons in de toekomst zal brengen (thanks Abraxas voor de tip):
The PCI-X standard, adopted last fall, extends the 66-MHz PCI standard to include 32/64-bit, 133-MHz performance and is targeted at high-bandwidth applications such as Gigabit Ethernet, storage area networking (SAN), routers and switches."As processors get faster, external bus speeds need to increase as well," said David P. Lautzenheiser, vice president of marketing at LightSpeed, based here. "The PCI-X standard addresses this with a 133-MHz, 64-bit bus, while remaining backward-compatible with the slower PCI standard. Designers wishing to take advantage of the benefits of the PCI-X standard need to access it at full speed."
