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Plans to Leverage HyperTransport Technology in Several System Platforms: The HyperTransport Technology Consortium, a non-profit organization dedicated to developing, promoting and licensing the industry’s lowest latency, highest bandwidth interconnect technology, today announced that Dell has joined the consortium as a high-level member and will leverage HyperTransport technology in a number of its powerful server. HyperTransport technology is a CPU-native interconnect standard that delivers efficient high throughput with minimum latency between multiple devices including chassis, motherboards and chips. This interconnect technology is designed to support high-performance appliances, embedded systems, networking systems, workstations, gaming systems, servers and supercomputers. “Our enterprise customers expect standards-based solutions that deliver top performance and processor scalability, combined with optimized cost of ownership,” said Kevin Kettler, chief technology officer, Dell. “By incorporating HyperTransport technology in many of our industry-leading server and desktop products, we continue to deliver innovative systems that meet customers’ requirements for high performance and scalable configurations.” “Dell’s investment in HyperTransport technology validates the growing appeal of our interconnect standard to mainstream enterprise computing environments,” said David Rich, president of the HyperTransport Consortium. “As a world-leading computer system provider, Dell has the market latitude to further globalize the reach of HyperTransport technology by delivering the lowest latency, highest bandwidth and most future-ready system interconnect to data centers and to individual users.” “The HyperTransport 3.0 specification and the high-performance HTX slot interface standards have sparked the influx of several new commercial and academic members,” said Mario Cavalli, general manager of the HyperTransport Consortium. “Dell’s high-level Consortium membership extends the already significant roster of top-tier system manufacturers that have contributed to both shaping and reaping the rewards of our leading interconnect technology.”