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To: Paul Engel who wrote (47849)	1/29/1999 5:18:00 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571808

They may not put their pants on two legs at a time, but at least those Intels are not total fools. 18-24 months is a little far away, but may get their in time for their 800 Mhz and above CPUs. I have seen references that stated the 200 MHz of of EV6/K7 is just the first generation and that the "design" indicates a 400 MHz possibility. We all have our dreams I guess. For those not used to Geek Speak this 400 MHz at 64 bits wide is 2.56 Gbytes/sec. Also possible is 64 bits at 32 bits and 128 bits (1.28 Gbytes/sec and 5.12 Gbytes/sec). There is a considerable possibility that we will not be seeing these bandwidths in a mass-produced product for some time (< 3years).

To: Paul Engel who wrote (47849)	1/29/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571808

Paul, NGIO is very, very different from any sort of bus-topology idea. NGIO is more of a switched fabric allowing devices to be connected outside the server chassis, much like Fibre Channel or a network. I don't know much about NGIO yet, but I imagine that the reason it's point-to-point is precisely because of this switched-fabric paradigm. Plus, I imagine that NGIO uses very few pins or wires, but transmits data across the small number of wires at extremely high speeds. That's another benefit from the P2P: it allows fewer pins and wires. Tenchusatsu