Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: PLX Technology Europe | Subject: PEX 8548 PCIe switches
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 05 May 2008
Switches speed Sun's CMT servers
Two PLX ExpressLane PEX 8548 PCIe switches each interface to a Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor through a x8 PCIe link integrated directly into a processor silicon.
A number of PLX PEX 8548 PCIe switches for high-performance PCIe fanout and slot expansion have been designed to support the breakthrough Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers The PEX 8548 is a highly flexible 48-lane PCIe switch, and the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers - powered by the Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor, are the world's first dual-socket chip multithreading (CMT) servers, supporting up to 128 threads in as little as 1RU, designed for demanding enterprise and OLTP database applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Aug 2002 at 8.00am (UK)