Apple Joins HyperTransport Technology Consortium

AMD, API NetWorks, Inc., Apple, Cisco Systems, NVIDIA Corporation, PMC-Sierra, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Transmeta have joined together as promoters of HyperTransport technology, and will now manage the development and evolution of the technology's specifications. More than 180 companies throughout the computer and communications industries have been engaged with AMD in working with the HyperTransport technology. HyperTransport technology is an innovative solution that enables the chips inside of high-performance computer devices, and networking and communications devices - such as those that power the Internet - to communicate with each other up to 48 times faster compared with existing technologies. Here is the press release.