From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Intel and TOE in the news Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 22:44:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4216B62D.6000502@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Netdev Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/18/intel_tcpip_attack/ Intel to attack greedy TCP/IP stack Intel next year will plant itself square in the middle of the budding market for systems that speed network traffic by rolling out something called I/OAT. I/OAT stands for I/O Acceleration Technology and it will be previewed for the first time at next month's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco. Intel remains cagey about what exactly I/OAT is, but it dangled a few details today in front of reporters ahead of the IDF event. [...] Intel plans to sidestep the need for separate TOE cards by building this technology into its server processor package - the chip itself, chipset and network controller. This should reduce some of the time a processor typically spends waiting for memory to feed back information and improve overall application processing speeds. [...]