HyperTransport Group Announces Version 3.0
 

The HyperTransport Consortium announced version 3.0 of the technology on Monday, increasing the link throughput speed, physical distance, and adding an "unganged" mode that can split the available bandwidth into two distinct channels.

Backplanes and components designed around the new backwards-compatible specification will be able to achieve throughputs of up to 2.6-GHz, or 20.8 Gbytes per second, via either an 8-bit or 16-bit interface. HT 3.0's performance is slightly less than double the 1.4 GHz, 11.2-Gbyte throughput allowed by HyperTransport 2.0.