[Pc_Support] AGP for the PCI-Express work - Intel back to its old tricks

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 10:10 -0400, Damien McKenna wrote:
> Intel, unwilling to use a competitor's technology (Hypertransport),  
> teamed up with IBM to develop an "enhancement" to PCI-Express called  
> Geneseo, in a similar way to its 1990's "enhancement" of the PCI  
> standard to create AGP.  Yay.  Not.
> http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2845

In a nutshell ...

AMD knows how to handle multiple CPU-I/O coherency.
Intel does not, and relies on the chipset for it.


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