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SAN JOSE, CA -- HyperTransport Technology Consortium, founded to develop, promote and manage specifications of the HyperTransport(TM) I/O link technology, today announced SGI (NYSE:SGI) has joined the consortium as a Promoter Member, the highest level of membership. The consortium's founding members; AMD, API NetWorks, Apple Computers, Cisco Systems, NVIDIA, PMC-Sierra, Sun Microsystems and Transmeta, represent the other Promoter Member companies. SGI is a world-leading provider of high-performance computing, complex data management and visualization products, services and solutions. "We're pleased to have SGI as a Promoter Member to the HyperTransport Technology Consortium," said Gabriele Sartori, president of the consortium. "SGI will play an integral role in leading the future development and adoption of the HyperTransport specification to enable high-speed connections between integrated circuits within networking, telecommunications, computers and high-performance embedded applications. The outstanding expertise of SGI will give an incredible contribution to the consortium and the evolution of the standard." SGI's Promoter membership, in addition to the other promoting members, ensures the company's representation within the HyperTransport Technology Consortium's Executive Committee. Members receive royalty-free license to HyperTransport IP. HyperTransport technology is here and now; a high-speed, high-performance, point-to-point link for integrated circuits that provides a universal connection designed to reduce the number of buses within the system. It provides a high-performance link for networking and embedded applications, and enables highly scalable multiprocessing systems. It is designed to enable the chips inside of PCs, servers, networking and communications devices to communicate with each other up to 48 times faster than with existing technologies. HyperTransport technology enables system designers to develop very complex, high-performance, scalable networking topologies through switching technology, while maintaining and improving the scalability and performance of their existing legacy PCI infrastructures. "The HyperTransport technology's high-bandwidth target fits SGI's long term strategic planning to enable technical and creative customers to benefit from increased performance and capacity and lower price points," said Greg Estes, vice president of marketing at SGI. For more information visit www.sgi.com or www.hypertransport.org