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News Release from: Alliance Semiconductor Corp | Subject: AS90L10204
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 January 2004
Bridge chip brings HyperTransport to
PCI-X
The high-performance AS90L10204 HyperTransport-to-PCI-X bridge is optimised for computing applications including workstations, computer servers, server blades, workstations and desktop PCs.
The high-performance AS90L10204 HyperTransport-to-PCI-X bridge is optimised for computing applications including workstations, computer servers, server blades, workstations and desktop PCs The bridge chip from Alliance Semiconsuctor works with AMD's Opteron and Athlon families of X86-microprocessors, as well as with Transmeta's Efficeon microprocessor
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The AS90L10208 HyperTransport-to-PCI/PCI-X bridge is designed and optimised for bandwidth- and performance-intensive embedded applications in communications, networking, servers and storage systems.
The AS90L10204, microprocessor and South Bridge, create a three-piece chipset that bridges the HyperTransport interface from the Opteron, Athlon or Efficeon microprocessors to the PCI-X bus.
This enables system manufacturers to tap into the vast infrastructure of peripherals and system components based on PCI-X, such as network interface cards (NICs), RAID controllers, host bus adapters (HBA) and others.
"The AS90L10204 HyperTransport-to-PCI-X bridge expands the possibilities of today's PC and server system architectures by providing new design options based on the HyperTransport technology", said Robert Napaa, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Alliance's System Solutions Business Unit.
"By using our AS90L10204, customers can design, manufacture and market high-capacity, cost-effective workstations, computer servers, server blades, workstations and desktop PCs".
The AS90L10204 supports two 8bit HyperTransport interfaces that provide 1.6Gbyte/s bandwidth in each direction and a single 64bit, 133MHz PCI-X bus which enables the connectivity to a variety of PCI-X based peripherals and addon cards.
The AS90L10204 is currently sampling along with a complete suite of reference design and software drivers.
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