Dog,
It sounds like you got this one wrong. It looks like the Intel proposal is for a 2.5 Giga Byte per second transfer rate- not 2.5Gbits/sec.
Intel three weeks ago introduced another proposed technology, Next Generation I/O. Like Future I/O, NGIO is a switched-fabric architecture with an open spec and with systems due out in the second half of 2000. NGIO connections would run at a rate of 2.5 Gbps per link. About 35 hardware vendors have endorsed the technology, including Dell Computer, Hitachi Ltd., Siemens-Nixdorf Information Systeme AG, NEC Corp. and Sun Microsystems. Several software manufacturers, such as Microsoft and Novell, and several Linux developers also have endorsed NGIO. HP and Compaq say they are still evaluating the technology.
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