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Charlie's thoughts on the ccHTT updates
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29155
What are the AMD accelerators?
We take a stab at explaining

By Charlie Demerjian: Sunday 22 January 2006, 08:20

"AMD'S ACCELERATOR strategy has been the talk of the town lately, and that is about as deep as it has gotten. An off-handed comment by Phil Hester, followed by speculation and hand waving, smoke but no fire. Here is a little speculation, and I do mean speculation, as to what it might be. I am probably wrong though.

Basically, what I think they are going to do is use ccHT as a co-processor bus instead of a CPU interconnect. Rather than add bits to the CPUs themselves, it is faster, cheaper and more flexible to add them to an external socket. You do however lose a good chunk of performance by going the external route. If you are faced with the tradeoff of slightly slower or so expensive it isn't worth it to make, the choice becomes obvious.

So, what is AMD to do? Well, an Opteron 8xx has three ccHT links..."