Intel launched seven 45 nanometer (nm)-manufactured Intel Xeon Processor 7400 Series products, offering up to six processing cores per chip and 16MB of shared cache memory.
Platforms based on these processors can scale up to 16 processor “sockets” to deliver servers with up to 96 processing cores inside, offering tremendous scalability, ample computing threads and extensive [...]
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IEEE has approved IEEE 1394 “Standard for High Performance Serial Bus,” offering speeds up to 3.2 Gigabit/second.
Commercially known under the brand names of FireWire (Apple’s name) and
i.LINK (Sony’s name), the IEEE 1394 standard provides specifications
for a high-speed serial bus which supports both asynchronous and
isochronous communication and integrates well with most IEEE standard
32-bit and 64-bit parallel [...]
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