Hypertransport Consortium sets out the future for CPU comms

The Hypertransport Consortium has set out its vision for the future of the technology in three white papers on its website. HyperTransport is a board level connection specification that provides up to 22.4GB/sec aggregate bandwidth between either CPU to I/O or CPU to CPU. ...more

Intel signs up to join Eclipse consortium

Intel has announced that it has become a supporting member of Eclipse, which is a consortium of software development tool vendors building an 'open platform' for integrating third-party tools. Developers optimising applications for the Pentium 4, Xeon or Itanium processors will be able to use plug-ins to integrate Intel compilers and the VTune Performance Analyzers into the Eclipse development environment. Eclipse describes itself as 'a kind of universal tool platform - an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular'. ...more

And also today (22-Jan-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. Version 3.23 of the Open Source database MySQL, is now officially declared stable. ...more

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More security woes for Vista

A report raises concerns about the security features built into the upcoming version of Microsoft's flagship Windows Vista operating system. The report by the Yankee Group says that while a strong emphasis on security is welcome, many of the features are intrusive and likely to be bypassed by users and IT staff. It also predicts lean times ahead for certain sectors of the PC security industry. ...more