Nvidia's HIS is two way chip

NVIDIA'S CEO CONFIRMED claims in a conference call last week that its High-Speed Interconnect, HIS chip actually works both ways. In case you are not familiar with HIS, we used to call it a bridge chip, and that's what it actually is. This means not only that it can turn an AGP card into PCI Express, it actually can turn a native PCI Express card into AGP.

This means that the NV40, Geforce 6800 generation of cards, does not have to be the last of the AGP cards from Nvidia. If Nvidia sees any demand for AGP cards sometimes later this year it can make new PCB and launch a new AGP card. This one would be a native PCI Express part turned into AGP one. Remember that Intel is about to a launch full scale attack with PCI-E platforms starting from the 21st of June. Nvidia's PCI Express bridge concept is not necessarily a bad thing at least from this point of view, and Nvidia's CEO didn't spare his words attacking ATI and claiming that its R420 marchitecture is actually using this bridge chip concept. The bridge is hidden inside the chip. And then it can claim the Native tag too.

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