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To: Paul Engel who wrote (133907)	5/4/2001 5:31:17 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul: Re: "Didn't you hear? It is already in production in the real world by one of the licensees. " Sure - and you can't even name the product or the licensee !! What a HOOT !! From: eetimes.com AMD has working silicon of the technology, and in-house PCI boards on which two chips communicate using HyperTransport. API Networks Inc., which co-developed the spec, last month released a HyperTransport-to-PCI bridge; Nvidia Corp. has a working south bridge; Altera Corp. has shipped FPGAs that support the technology; and multiple MIPS CPUs that use HyperTransport interconnect are in development for the communications market. Sartori also said a defense contractor, whose name he withheld, contacted AMD in April about licensing HyperTransport. It was the first defense company to do so, he said. &#133 Sartori would not disclose who the steering members of the consortium will be but named Broadcom, Cisco, Nvidia and Sun as having helped tweak the spec to broaden its appeal and make it more focused on networking applications. More than 150 companies have licensed the technology from AMD to date, at a minimal fee -fyo