GDA TECHNOLOGIES EASES THE INTEGRATION OF
HYPERTRANSPORT(tm) TECHNOLOGY INTO EXISTING CHIPS
- GDA Technologies offers HyperTransport intellectual
property and integration services to help reduce design costs and development
time for HyperTransport(tm) enabled chips -
SUNNYVALE, CA-MARCH 19, 2002-AMD (NYSE: AMD) today
announced that GDA Technologies is offering intellectual property (IP) and
related integration services to companies wishing to build high performance
chips based on HyperTransport(tm) technology.
GDA Technologies, Inc., a fast growing supplier of
intellectual property and design services, is providing the silicon code or blue
print that will enable companies to adopt HyperTransport interconnect
technology. GDA's reusable HyperTransport modules and integration services pave
the way for companies to design HyperTransport technology-enabled integrated
circuits for networking and communications devices, and computers.
"With this new IP available from GDA Technologies,
companies don't have to design HyperTransport technology-enabled integrated
circuits from the ground up. By enabling HyperTransport interoperability and
integration into existing technology, GDA helps companies lower their design
costs, and deliver products faster," said Richard Heye, vice president of
Platform Engineering and Infrastructure for AMD's Computation Products Group.
"HyperTransport is an important technology that enables
high bandwidth designs with limited impact in the overall architecture," said AG
Karunakaran, president of GDA Technologies, Inc. "We feel this core will help
our customers design high-bandwidth integrated circuit designs and alleviate the
worry of possible data bottlenecks."
"This new IP from GDA Technologies is an important step
as it helps the Consortium with its number one goal: to make HyperTransport
technology more easily accessible as an industry standard interconnect
technology," said Gabriele Sartori, president of the HyperTransport Technology
Consortium.
About HyperTransport(tm) Technology
HyperTransport technology is designed to enable
integrated circuits in computers, servers, embedded systems, networking and
telecommunications equipment exchange information to communicate with each other
greater than 40 times faster than with some existing bus technologies.
HyperTransport technology is a high-speed, low latency, point-to-point link that
enables chips to transfer data at peak rates up to 12.8 Gigabytes per second
(102.4 Gbit/sec) as it is defined today. By helping to eliminate system
bottlenecks, HyperTransport technology allows today's faster microprocessors to
use system memory more efficiently in high-end multiprocessing systems. The
engineering design flexibility offered by HyperTransport technology helps to
scale performance in speed and width in order to meet requirements for high-end
server class machines, professional workstations, desktop PCs, and
battery-powered portable computers. HyperTransport technology was invented at
AMD with contributions fro! m industry partners and is managed and licensed by
the HyperTransport Technology Consortium, a Texas non-profit corporation. The
full specification and more information about HyperTransport technology can be
found at
www.hypertransport.org.
About AMD
AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the
personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing
facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and
Standard & Poor's 500 company, produces microprocessors, flash memory devices,
and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in
1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of $3.9 billion in
2001. (NYSE: AMD).
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, and combinations thereof, are
trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices. HyperTransport is a trademark of the
HyperTransport Technology Consortium. All other product names are used for
identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective
companies.
