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

[Neil Rieck]

On Apr 24, 11:29 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 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.

Kudos to Apple for educating their consumers about why to stick with
Apple products (even though they are referencing Intel technology
improvements in the link you provided; this is something that DEC used
to do; Compaq did it to a lesser extent; HP doesn't seem to do it at
all anymore).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickPath

While Apple makes this technology available through Xeon-Nehalem, it
is also available on PCs sporting Intel's Core i7 CPU (currently
available in Canada at www.futureshop.ca)

NSR