Non-proprietary I/O is having an increased presence within the central processing, printed circuit board, and IP communities, reports In-Stat.
HyperTransport, PCI Express, and Serial RapidIO have all announced major revisions to their existing standards, the high-tech market research firm says. All three standards are finding ways to facilitate higher frequency signals and, as such, will have greater per-link chip-to-chip throughputs and higher overall bandwidths.
Chris Kissel, analyst, In-Stat, said, "The increased bandwidths serve to make the I/O more purposeful, but the non-proprietary I/O (or standard I/O) is stretching out to new usages. Computing, networking, and communications are the early adopters of the new standards."
Recent research by In-Stat found the following:
* Non-proprietary I/Os were in 461.3 million devices in 2006.
* By 2010, there will be 517.3 million devices with non-proprietary I/Os.
* PCI Express, a serial I/O instead of a parallel I/O, has changed the nature of the PCI bus.
Source:
In-Stat
