HyperTransport Technology Consortium Promoters Endorse HyperTransport Specification 2.0

Alliance Semiconductor Corporation
"Alliance Semiconductor has incorporated HyperTransport technology into a number of advanced bridge products and we welcome this new specification," said Robert Napaa, Vice President of Marketing at Alliance Semiconductor Corporation. "It clearly defines a high performance path for Alliance's future product enhancements and addresses our customers' requirements for the next generation of I/O devices."

Broadcom Corporation
"Broadcom has embedded HyperTransport technology in our advanced 64-bit line of broadband processors and is pleased to see a well-defined technical roadmap for significantly greater performance in Specification 2.0," said David Kranzler, Senior Director, Broadband Processors, Broadcom Corporation. "Our customers can be assured that they can continue to scale system performance, while at the same time preserving and protecting the investment they've already made in HyperTransport technology."

NVIDIA Corporation
"We have leveraged HyperTransport technology in our family of NVIDIA nForce™ media and communications processors to deliver the highest bandwidth at the lowest possible system integration cost," said Drew Henry, general manager of platform products at NVIDIA. "HyperTransport Release 2.0 Specification will enable us to address the increased bandwidth demands required by our next generation of platform products, without having to impose major redesigns at the silicon level."

PMC-Sierra, Inc.
"HyperTransport technology is already the highest performance, lowest cost, and most efficient processor to processor and processor to I/O bus technology available. This new specification sets a clear roadmap for systems OEMs to obtain even higher performance with our RM9000™ family of 64-bit MIPS-based™ microprocessors without incurring costly redesign," said Tom Riordan, Vice President and General Manager of the Microprocessor Products Division of PMC-Sierra. "Congratulations to the technical team at the Consortium for making a completely backward compatible specification that increases performance without adding unnecessary costs."

Transmeta Corporation
"Transmeta embeds HyperTransport technology in its latest generation of Transmeta Efficeon™ x86 processors to provide a very high performance, low cost link for highly compact, low power systems" said Art Swift, senior vice president of marketing at Transmeta Corporation. "With this new specification, the HyperTransport Consortium is paving the way for us to leverage the HyperTransport technology even further."

Promoter Members:

Gabriele Sartori, President of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium:
"The new milestone of 30+ million ports shipped illustrates the widespread adoption of HyperTransport technology. Our Consortium and industry research shows that HyperTransport is the next emerging I/O standard expected to reach critical mass in the marketplace. HyperTransport technology-enabled devices can now be found in systems of all types - from low-cost consumer products to high performance supercomputers. Working together, the consortium has been able to develop HyperTransport technology and address the new requirements of the computer, networking and telecommunications industries, while preserving the software investment that exists in PCI today."

Richard Heye, vice president of AMD’s Platform & Infrastructure Engineering & Microprocessor Business Management:
“The HyperTransport Technology Consortium is a good example of collaboration between AMD and its partners responding to industry needs, and promoting a new standard for improving overall system performance.”

Jon Rubinstein, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering:
“Apple is delighted to participate as one of the leaders in the HyperTransport Technology Consortium. HyperTransport represents a great technology with exciting future potential.”

Dan Dobberpuhl, vice president and general manager of Broadcom Corporation's Broadband Processor Business Unit
“Broadband customers require fast performance and minimal latency in transmitting data, voice and video. Scalable to 1GHz, the BCM1250 offers customers high-performance processing power hand-in-hand with high-speed standard I/O interfaces such as HyperTransport technology.”

Jim Keller, chief architect of Broadcom Corporation's Broadband Processor Business Unit
“These new HyperTransport networking extensions are critical for bringing together packet and message processing with the standard read/write protocols for today’s networking and communications systems space. Consortium members in the communications space such as Cisco and Broadcom Corporation, some of whom have already adopted the technology for their highest performing network processors, are driving the development of the new networking extensions to ensure the longevity of the HyperTransport specification.”

John Wakerly, vice president and CTO for Cisco's Enterprise Line of Business:
“By participating as a promoter of HyperTransport Technology Consortium, Cisco Systems expects to play a leading role in bringing to market a new generation of intelligent, high-performance, processor-based networks.” 

Dan Vivoli, vice president of marketing at NVIDIA:
“NVIDIA's incorporation of AMD’s HyperTransport technology is critical in our quest to deliver unmatched system performance. Today's PC applications are increasingly complex with advanced 3D graphics, high-speed networking, streaming video, and cinematic 3D audio. In fact, the bandwidth supplied by HyperTransport allowed us to implement full Dolby Digital 5.1 3D audio processing and broadband networking in the MCP, something no other current technology allowed us to do.”

Tom Riordan, vice president and general manager of the MIPS Processor Division at PMC-Sierra:
“We are looking forward to working closely with all consortium member companies to help promote the deployment of HyperTransport, a new standard that meets the performance demands of the networking communications industries. PMC-Sierra has multiple products using HyperTransport, including our recently announced RM9000x2 gigahertz multiprocessor.”

Brian Holden, chairperson of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium Technical Working Group and principle engineer for the MIPS Processor Division at PMC-Sierra:
“The consortium is committed to meeting the needs of our members and their customers and is evolving the specification accordingly. The newly added networking extensions reduce complexity, increase efficiency and enhance the overall functionality of HyperTransport I/O specification.”

Bhanu Nanduri, vice president of Alliance Semiconductor:
“We are continuing our work with the other members of the Consortium to further enhance the HyperTransport specifications to meet the bandwidth and performance needs of next generation embedded and computing applications. We are committed to the HyperTransport standard and are aggressively driving HT technology to market with our family of HT-based bridges and switches.”

Pete Rado, vice president of Engineering, Volume System Products, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
“Sun is committed to driving open standards and delivering the most advanced technologies to our customers. HyperTransport technology will represent the next level of bus performance and functionality for workstations and servers. Sun is delighted to be a leader in the HyperTransport Technology Consortium.” 

Doug Laird, executive vice president of product development of Transmeta
“Transmeta believes that HyperTransport technology is the right choice for the next generation of lower power PCs, networking and communications devices. By joining the leaders in the HyperTransport Technology Consortium, and cooperating together on this exciting new technology, customers will be the winners.”

Member Quotes:

Dr. L. Curtis Widdoes, chief executive officer, 0-In: 
“0-In CheckerWare monitors in conjunction with 0-In Search both represent the only practical way to apply formal verification technology to validate a complex protocol such as HyperTransport.. In the case of HyperTransport, we were very fortunate to work directly with AMD's simulation environment, the very same used to verify HyperTransport products under development at AMD, to validate our own monitor.”

Yankin Tanurhan, senior director, IP solutions group at Actel Corporation:
“Actel is committed to increasing the performance of next-generation high-speed communications designs. Combining leading-edge communications interfaces, such as HyperTransport, with programmable logic enables designers to solve interoperability and bottleneck issues. Joining the consortium underscores our commitment to the development and adoption of the HyperTransport standard to solve these problems.”

Hiro Higuma, director, strategic marketing, Altera Corporation:
“As engineers designing bandwidth-hungry products move from conventional PCI to HyperTransport technology, programmable logic solutions will be key in providing high-speed interfaces to other semiconductor components on the system. Joining the HyperTransport Technology Consortium is in line with Altera's goal to provide our customers with the latest interface technologies and IP for their system-on-a-programmable chip applications.”

Jeff Twombly, vice president of marketing and sales at Cavium Networks:
“Cavium's NITROX Security Macro Processor, which is in production today, is one of the first processors shipping with a HyperTransport interface. We chose the HyperTransport interface on the basis of its high performance, robust electricals and wide acceptance. We are delighted to be part of the HyperTransport Consortium and look forward to closely working with other consortium members to drive interoperability and accelerate the deployment of this key technology across a wide range of applications.”

Ravi Thummarukudy, vice president of IC Design Services at GDA Technologies
“By delivering this OpenVera verification IP, along with our already released Tunnel RTL synthesizable core, GDA is taking a leadership position as the provider of key HyperTransport technologies. Our suite of OpenVera verification IP, synthesizable RTL and design services address the design, verification and integration aspect of HyperTransport technology in our customers’ designs.”

Thomas Brenner, vice president and general manager of LSI Logic's Networking ASIC Division
“Membership in the HyperTransport Technology Consortium adds another high performance interface to our extensive IP portfolio and enables us to maintain a leadership position in providing new I/O interfaces rapidly to our customers. We believe that the HyperTransport I/O link specification provides a robust solution to address the bandwidth and scalability requirements for new generations of high-performance communications, storage and networking devices.”

Soreyrith Um, marketing manager at NEC Electronics
“HyperTransport technology allows us to provide our customers with an important tool to address the bandwidth and performance requirements of next-generation communications and computing devices. We believe this is a compelling technology to address the challenges facing communications designers today, and membership in the HyperTransport Consortium will allow NEC Electronics to contribute to its future development.”

Lisa Lipscomb, vice president of marketing for NurLogic
“We believe HyperTransport technology plays a significant role in meeting the performance, bandwidth, and time-to-market demands of our customers. NurLogic is in a unique position to deliver complex cores based on HyperTransport because of our extensive mixed-signal background.”

Alan L. McCann, senior vice president and general manager, Corporate Marketing and Products Division, Phoenix Technologies:
“The HyperTransport I/O link provides our developers with the technology they require to create next generation devices, management software products for PCs and other connected digital devices. HyperTransport technology achieves this with increased performance, connectivity and bandwidth, and more importantly, in a cost-effective manner. We are pleased to be a consortium member and endorse the technology as a viable and available specification.”

Larry Chisvin, vice president of marketing at PLX Technologies
“PLX has a long history of active participation in standards-development efforts, working to refine and advance a wide range of I/O interconnect solutions. HyperTransport represents another significant I/O architecture to which PLX can apply its expertise and make a significant contribution to compatibility with other HyperTransport devices to advance the standard.”

Peter Feist, vice president worldwide marketing for QuickLogic:
“Our Embedded Standard Products (ESPs) provide significant time and cost savings, and increased performance and flexibility to the engineers who design many of today’s advanced electronic systems. HyperTransport I/O link will be an extremely beneficial specification for these designers. We are pleased to be a Contributor member of the HyperTransport Technology Consortium and look forward to promoting industry-wide implementation.”

Scott Winick, director marketing for system verification at TransEDA:
“The automatic generation of a high volume of real world traffic, the protocol interface checking and data consistency checking features of our new BFM are of great value to verification engineers. There are no new languages to learn and no complex models or drivers to write. Our HyperTransport Verification Suite enables designers to focus on chip development rather than writing their own models.”

Richard Brown, director of marketing, VIA Technologies, Inc.:
“HyperTransport technology is an excellent fit with VIA's ‘Total Connectivity Strategy.’ The high bandwidth, low-latency chip interconnect can deliver enhanced system performance across VIA’s platforms and will be a significant consideration in future chip designs.”

Analyst Quotes:

Vernon Turner, IDC Group Vice President, Global Enterprise Server Solutions:
"In 2003, HyperTransport technology has clearly established itself in multiple high-volume markets and appears to be well-supported with shipping silicon and infrastructure products by major players in the personal computer, networking, server, communications, embedded systems and consumer market segments," states Vernon Turner. Aggregate HyperTransport port shipments are expected to grow rapidly from over 30 million ports in 2003 to over 200 million ports in 2006."

Linley Gwennap, principal analyst and founder of the Linley Group:
“HyperTransport will be used a lot in networks. It’s being picked up quickly there. They need it today. And PCI just doesn’t supply enough bandwidth.” – Investor’s Business Daily – January 10, 2002

Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst for Insight 64, Saratoga, Calif
“The publication of the HyperTransport I/O Link specification removes the administrative hassles chip and system designers typically encounter as they sort out their choices for next-generation interconnect technologies. In days gone by, engineers often needed assistance from their legal departments to gain access to documents that defined new standards. This inevitably lengthened project schedules and sometimes limited the range of all available options. Now designers can get all they need for their evaluations with a few clicks at their favorite Web sites.”

Jim Turley, Semiconductor Analyst and Editor of Silicon-Insider:
"HyperTransport is fast, reliable, and has broad support. What more could you ask for? It's one of the few of the so-called open standards that really is open, and that serves the needs of a broad line of companies rather than the commercial goals of a few. I'm quite happy to see HyperTransport gain traction in the market because it works, both technically and commercially."

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