AMD Announces Texas Instruments Licenses Next-Generation HyperTransport.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 2001 HyperTransport Technology is a High-Speed, Low-Latency Bus That Interfaces With Current and Next Generation System Buses AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AMD) today announced it has licensed its high-speed interconnect HyperTransport(tm) technology to Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. Incorporated (TI). HyperTransport is an innovative solution that moves information faster, enabling the chips inside of PCs, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than some existing bus technologies. Texas Instruments will use HyperTransport technology in devices in computers, telecommunications and other equipment. "It is gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to see a leader like Texas Instruments join the growing list of companies such as Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , NVIDIA, PMC-Sierra, and SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. , who have incorporated HyperTransport technology into their future product plans," said Gabriele Sartori, president of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. "HyperTransport technology is being driven by the HyperTransport Consortium as a free and open industry standard aimed at removing system design bottlenecks and dramatically increasing the performance of the next-generation computation and telecommunications systems. The licensing of this technology by an industry leader like Texas Instruments increases the momentum of HyperTransport as the future connectivity standard." "As a leader in high performance connectivity solutions, TI plans to continue its leadership by developing products based on the latest standards," said Steve Schnier, market segment manager for PC Connectivity Solutions at Texas Instruments. "HyperTransport is an important enabling technology that will allow TI to create devices that promote innovation and new applications in computers, telecom, and various other equipment." "The adoption of HyperTransport by an industry heavyweight leader like Texas Instruments further illustrates and reinforces the need for state-of-the-art interconnect technology in the computer and communication markets," said Richard Heye, vice president, Platform Engineering & Infrastructure for AMD's Computation Products Group. "We have seen an excellent response from the technical and business community with regard to the HyperTransport technology and we are pleased to offer this technology to Texas Instruments." HyperTransport technology is a high-speed, low-latency bus that can interface with today's buses like AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. , PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , 1394, USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. 2.0, and 1Gbit Ethernet as well as next generation buses including AGP 8x, Infiniband, PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. , PCI 3.0, and 10Gbit Ethernet. AMD developed HyperTransport technology and is a founding member of the HyperTransport consortium. HyperTransport technology can be licensed royalty-free by joining the HyperTransport Consortium and paying the annual membership fee. More information concerning the HyperTransport Consortium can be found at www.hypertransport.org. About AMD AMD (NYSE:AMD) is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, flash memory devices, and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. AMD on the Web For more AMD news and product information, please visit our virtual pressroom at www.amd.com/news/virtualpress/index.html. Additional press releases are available at www.amd.com/news/news.html. AMD, the AMD logo, and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. HyperTransport is a trademark of the HyperTransport Consortium. 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