Researchers at the California Institute of Technology, in collaboration with several other organizations, have designed and implemented "a new data transfer protocol for the Internet fast enough to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds." Announced on March 18, 2003, this remarkable feat is an important breakthrough for certain scientific endeavors that are currently impeded by...

HyperTransport technology is an architecture that allows data transfer between chips in excess of ten gigabytes per second. This white paper from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), released in October 2002, considers the potential of HyperTransport in designing an input/ output bus for a microprocessor. The technology, while accommodating high speed demands, requires relatively little power, making it...

Computers and processors of the near future could incorporate RapidIO technology, an interconnect architecture that provides high speed data transfer between on- and off-chip components. The RapidIO Trade Association is an industry-wide collaboration that is developing the technology. Among the resources provided on the association's Web site, the most useful are the white paper, which gives a...