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News Release from: Tundra Semiconductor | Subject: Tsi109
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Team on 21 March 2006
Host bridge finds home in blade server
Tundra Semiconductor's Tsi109 host bridge is to be integrated into the Genesi high density blade server.
Tundra Semiconductor's Tsi109 host bridge, the industry's highest performing host bridge for PowerPC, is to be integrated into the Genesi high density blade server Using the Tsi109, the Genesi design optimises system space to create the highest possible density blade server and ensures superior performance at low cost
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Tundra Tsi109 host bridge, billed as the industry's highest performing host bridge for PowerPC, is in full production.
Focused on leveraging the computing and power efficiency of Freescale Semiconductor's high performance MPC74xx PowerPC processor, the Genesi high density blade server provides a complete reference design package offering third party manufacturers a significant competitive advantage in the blade server market.
"Tundra is the leading system interconnect design partner and their host bridges are great additions to the PowerPC ecosystem, so we were pleased to integrate the Tundra Tsi109 high performance host bridge into the high density blade design", said Gerald Carda, Chief Technology Officer of Genesi.
"Our customers are demanding higher performance PowerPC solutions and the availability of Tundra's bridges with dual processor support, integrated power management and DDR2 memory backed by world-class support is enabling them to bring highly optimised systems to market faster".
The Tsi109 host bridge sets industry benchmarks for performance and power management through an innovative feature set supported by world-class design support.
The host bridge is capable of dual processor support at 167MHz, which enables higher system compute performance.
The Tsi109's superior memory pipeline offers industry-leading memory bandwidth and an optimised PCI-X interface provides greater I/O to memory throughput.
In addition to 2.5W typical power dissipation, the Tsi109 supports DDR2 memory, which makes this host bridge the ideal choice for demanding high-density, power-sensitive applications.
The combination of the Tsi109's features, reliability and Tundra's world-class support provides designers with the benefits of greater overall system performance, reduced system design complexity, better integration and superior power efficiency The Tsi109 is currently sampling in both standard and lead-free packages for commercial temperatures.
The Tsi109 will be available for industrial temperatures and in full production in March 2006.
Volume pricing for the Tsi109 is under US $75.
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