AMD HyperTransport innovation opens up CPU sockets to OEMs

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During a quieter portion of today's AMD conference call with analysts, the company introduced an expansion of its HyperTransport-based AMD64 architecture with far-reaching implications. Code-named "Torrenza," it would effectively open up HyperTransport as though it were an API, enabling OEMs to build hardware that literally fits in the spare CPU slot like a co-processor.

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