[Info-vax] Intel's Quickpath (CSI)

[JF Mezei]

Back in 2004, Carly and Intel made major announcements, notably Intel
following AMD's lead to make 64 bit 8086s, as well as launching CSI, a
common system interconnect that would be used for both IA64 an 8086
architectures. Originally was to be available in 2007.

Back then, it was always tought that IA64 would be first to market with
this "high end" feature.

Apple has it now.
http://www.apple.com/ca/macpro/features/processor.html

Granted, many of the features in this have been seen before.  But in
term of Intel's product, we are now seeing new high end features come
out in commodity systems first.