Intel has certainly led the field in many of the technologies we now take for granted. PCI, USB, AGP and SDRAM are all projects that Intel has pushed into the market. Some have been greeted with great enthusiasm like the AGP, PCI and USB buses, some were a groaning point for manufacturers, such as re-designing motherboards to use SDRAM rather than SIMM modules, and some were totally off the charts bad - such as the now extinct RDRAM modules better known as RAMBUS.
PCI Express is the latest to come from the Intel labs. A joint venture with many companies to move to a more unified bus system, PCI Express has already been getting a lot of hype, especially with its capabilities to totally replace AGP by allocating over 8GB/s of bandwidth, rather than the 2.1GB/s which AGP 8x supplies.
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tweaktown
Jul 26, 2004, 06:23 AM
