Google, IBM, and others team up to hasten data transfers in computers
Computational workloads are growing, and processors, memory and storage are getting faster at a blazing pace. But emerging technologies could leave computers choking for bandwidth.
The potential chokepoint worries companies like Google, IBM, Samsung and Dell, which are moving to remedy the problem. New specifications from two new consortia will bring data unprecedented boosts in data transfer speeds to computers as early as next year.
OpenCAPI Consortium's connector specification will bring significant bandwidth improvements inside computers. OpenCAPI, announced Friday, will link storage, memory, GPUs and CPUs, much like PCI-Express 3.0, but will be 10 times faster with data speeds of 150GBps (gigabytes per second).
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