Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Illustration courtesy of Intel Corporation.
Third-Party North-South Bridge Connections
Intel is not alone in replacing the slow PCI bus connection between North and South
Bridge-type chips with faster architectures that bypass the PCI bus. Currently, chipset
vendors AMD and NVIDIA use the HyperTransport bus for chipset interconnects.
See
“
HyperTransport
,”
p.
178
(this chapter).
Other companies that have introduced high-speed chipset interconnects include the fol-
lowing:
