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News Release from: Intel Corporation | Subject: PCI Express products
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 September 2003
Intel lays down PCI Express roadmap
At last week's Intel Developer forum, Intel demonstrated its first chips based on PCI Express technology and provided an update on its roadmap for integrating the new interconnect specification.
At last week's Intel Developer forum, Intel demonstrated its first chips based on PCI Express technology and provided an update on its roadmap for integrating the new interconnect specification into its computing and communications products Intel also introduced several new programmes and tools to help accelerate adoption of PCI Express Technology, including the PCI Express IT Network cofounded with Dell
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 10 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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During keynotes at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel demonstrated for the first time its next-generation server and workstation chipsets, codenamed Lindenhurst and Tumwater, respectively, and their advanced PCI Express capabilities.
The server chipset demonstration used a Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) networking application to show how PCI Express technology enables direct connections to high-bandwidth adapters and other components without a costly I/O bridge chip that was previously required.
The workstation chipset demonstration focused on the capability of PCI Express to replace the AGP8X graphics interface.
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PCI Express technology doubled the performance possible with AGP8X from 2 to 4Gbyte/s, meeting the requirements of the growing number of high-bandwidth applications, such as high-quality digital photography, multimedia, advanced computer-aided design and digital video editing.
PCI Express will also be available in next-generation desktop chipsets.
All of these chipsets are scheduled to become available in 2004.
Intel also provided new insight into its future Ethernet controllers, I/O processors, bridges and motherboards that will incorporate PCI Express.
The first wave of products, which are scheduled to roll out in 2004, include: Intel's future Ethernet controllers, which will use PCI Express to achieve for the first time wire-speed, full-duplex GbE and 10 GbE connectivity on desktop and server platforms; Intel's next I/O storage processor, code-named Dobson, that integrates PCI Express and Intel XScale technologies to make high-performance RAID on motherboard with SCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel an integral feature of systems based on the Lindenhurst chipset; multiple PCI Express technology-enabled server and workstation motherboards that feature both PCI and PCI Express slots for efficient migration to the new interconnect technology; the new Intel 41210 serial-to-parallel PCI bridge, a PCI Express-to-PCI/PCI-X 1.0 bridge that enables legacy adapters and addon cards to work on PCI Express technology-based platforms, and the complementary Intel 41210 development platform to accelerate transition of legacy PCI cards to the new interconnect technology; and integrated client chipsets supporting the new PCI Express technology-based ExpressCard and Card ElectroMechanical interfaces, which will supersede today's Cardbus and PCI technologies on future Intel client platforms.
Intel also unveiled its PCI Express Interoperability Lab, which focuses on achieving interoperability between third-party products and Intel architecture-based platforms, using a complete gamut of electrical, configuration and protocol tests on desktop, server and workstation platforms.
To simplify the design job, Intel introduced new development tools, including its first Intel PCI Express product development kits (PDKs), consisting of PCI Express-enabled platforms based on Intel's Lindenhurst and Tumwater chipsets for development of server and workstation solutions.
The two PDKs will be available in limited quantities in the fourth quarter of this year and cost $8000.
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