Intel Adds New Processor to Family of I/O Building Blocks.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2000 Intel(R) 80303 I/O Processor Offers Outstanding Price/Performance RAID Solution for Server and Workstation Equipment Manufacturers Intel Corporation today introduced the first I/O processor to offer an integrated 64-bit, 66 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. PCI-to-PCI bridge that doubles PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). speed and bandwidth over previous generations. Offering an outstanding price/performance RAID (redundant array of independent disks) solution for add-in cards, external arrays, and RAID-on-motherboard for server and workstation OEMs, the Intel(R) 80303 I/O processor is Intel's third generation I/O processor. The 80303 is also an excellent I/O processor for data intensive applications such as storage area networks, communications systems, and networking line cards. The newest addition to Intel's I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output Building Block family, the 80303 I/O processor is a single-chip solution that simplifies server board design and lowers system costs. The 80303 is pre-validated with specified Intel processors, chipsets, various servers, add-in cards and leading operating systems for fast time-to-market. The 80303 incorporates a number of performance enhancements and encompasses industry standards including the latest PCI, I2O (Intelligent I/O) A standard for offloading input and output to an auxiliary processor. The auxiliary processor (I/O processor) manages the data transfer while the CPU does something else. (1), and power management standards. "The growth of the Internet is driving dramatic increases in I/O throughput requirements for servers, communications and client platforms," says Wendy Vittori, general manager, Intel I/O Products Division. "The Intel 80303 I/O processor increases the speed of I/O subsystems and addresses the demand for data protection and storage capabilities in entry and midrange servers by providing an integrated, cost-effective solution for equipment manufacturers." Successor to the popular i960(R) RN I/O processor, the 80303 offers a 100 MHz internal bus. The increase in internal bus speed provides bandwidth up to 800 Mbytes/second. This provides an estimated 25 percent typical RAID system performance increase over previous generations of I/O processors. Memory capacity and speed is also significantly enhanced, supporting up to 512 Mbytes of 100 MHz SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. memory. Randy Groves, vice president, Netfinity Development, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation, states, "The Intel 80303 I/O processor provides IBM with a high performance, cost-effective I/O solution for our state-of-the-art Netfinity servers. The price/performance of the 80303 I/O processor allows IBM to provide high-performance RAID storage solutions to our customers at an affordable price." Pricing and Availability The Intel 80303 I/O processor is now sampling with full production expected in the third quarter of 2000. Suggested OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and price in 10,000 quantities is $76. I/O processor development kits are available for the entire Intel i960(R) I/O processor family, and include a Cyclone evaluation board, complete with software tools including compiler, JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) An IEEE standard for boundary scan technology. See scan technology. JTAG - Joint Test Action Group emulator, and detailed documentation. For more information, visit http://developer.intel.com/design/iio. Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is also a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom. (1) Other brands and names are property of their respective holders. |
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