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To: RDM who wrote (47846)	1/29/1999 5:06:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) of 1571894

RDM - Re: " I just feel that the problems of point to point are more manageable than a multipoint bus. The proof is in the pudding. " Intel couldn't agree with you more. Intel is finishing up their engineering specs on their NGIO - Next Generation I/O - which will be channel driven as opposed to "bus" driven. The NGIO will include a switched fabric structure for very high speed point-to-point communications with peripherals and I/O . SPeeds will be > 1 GigaByte on these channels - a bit beyond the 200 MHz of the EV6/K7 bus. This architecture is till about 18 to 24 months away from production. Paul

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