Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[CombJelly]

"The ASIC uses at least one HT link - that is an expensive and, for now at least, non-standard thing to test."

Maybe. But IBM is using HTT on the companion chip for the 970, so they need to do this anyway. In addition, I suspect that this router is an integrated version of their Colony SPSwitch that they've used in many other projects. So it's not a totally new design.

However, it is true that the product run for this chip is going to be pretty limited.