Re: PCI lifetime

["Monish Shah" <monish.shah@indranetworks.com>]

> ** Proprietary **
>
> Dear friends,
> I red in many articles that PCI is at the end of its development.

True.

> They say,PCI has taken up so many changes till now, so better adopt a new
IO technology which should be a revolutionary as PCI gave at its inception.

True.

> I also red Infiniband is going to take up the market by 2005.

False.

Although Infiniband was conceived as a PCI replacement, it has evolved into
a SAN.  It will *not* replace PCI.  It *may* replace FibreChannel.

Intel and PCI-SIG are already talking about 3GIO as a PCI replacement, and
that is a much more believable story.  Of course, PCI and 3GIO will co-exist
for many years, just like ISA co-existed with PCI for many years.

Above statements probably don't apply to the iMac. ;-)

> I would like to know how far it's true.Is the infiniband is going to take
up PCI market.
> Open discussion pls.
>
> Venkat
> EmSyS(FPGA)

Monish
Indra Networks