The industrial HyperTransport consortium made an official press-release about the fact that the number of their adherents has overcome the 50-point bar. Now there are 51 companies: Acer Laboratories, Actel Corporation, Altera, AMD, American Megatrends, Apple, ATI Technologies, Banderacom, Broadcom, Cavium Networks, Cisco Systems, Dolphin Technology, Flow Engines, FuturePlus Systems, GDA Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Hifn, Josipa Company, LSI Logic, Marvell Technologies, MindShare, Inc., Mindspeed Technologies, Multinode Microsystems, NEC Electronics, Inc., Nokia, Nurlogic Design, NVIDIA, 0-in Design Automation, Phoenix Technologies, PLX Technology, PMC-Sierra, Primarion, QLogic, QuickLogic, SandCraft, Schlumberger Technologies, Seaway Networks, Inc., SGI, Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), SiPackets, Spinnaker Networks, Sun Microsystems, Tektronix, Teradyne, Toshiba America Electronic Components, TransEDA, Transmeta, VIA Technologies and Xilinx.

In fact, if you simply calculate all the companies mentioned in this long list above, you will get 50 and not 51. We agreed to consider it a trifling error, as this doesn’t influence the consortium’s success. 50 adherents within half a year is a more than noticeable success. Especially, since the partners introduced 30 different achievements already. All of them use HyperTransport technology. The future is behind open technologies, which do not require licensing.