Non-Proprietary I/O Making Gains in Several Markets, According to In-Stat.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Non-proprietary I/O is having an increased presence within the central processing, printed circuit board, and IP communities, reports In-Stat (http://www.in-stat.com). HyperTransport, PCI Express, and Serial RapidIO have all announced major revisions to their existing standards, the high-tech market research firm says. All three standards are finding ways to facilitate higher frequency signals and, as such, will have greater per-link chip-to-chip throughputs and higher overall bandwidths.

"The increased bandwidths serve to make the I/O more purposeful, but the non-proprietary I/O (or standard I/O) is stretching out to new usages," says Chris Kissel, In-Stat analyst. "Computing, networking, and communications are the early adopters of the new standards."

Recent research by In-Stat found the following:

* Non-proprietary I/Os were in 461.3 million devices in 2006.

* By 2010, there will be 517.3 million devices with non-proprietary I/Os.

* PCI Express, a serial I/O instead of a parallel I/O, has changed the nature of the PCI bus.

The research, "I/O, I/O, Changing the Status Quo: Chip-to-Chip Interconnects" (#IN0703153ESCA), covers the implications of changes in the I/O, and what they mean on a device level. For example, the I/O requirements are different for portable devices than for personal computers. The usages of HyperTransport, PCI Express, and RapidIO are forecast for devices from 2004-2010.

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