The PC industry consortium which is developing, promoting and licensing the HyperTransport interconnect technology has announced that Dell has joined the consortium and will implement HyperTransport technology, which AMD champions, in a number of its server and desktop product lines.

HyperTransport technology is a CPU-native interconnect standard that its proponents claim delivers efficient high throughput with minimum latency between multiple devices including chassis, motherboards and chips. This interconnect technology is designed to support appliances, embedded systems, networking systems, PCs, workstations, gaming systems, servers and supercomputers.

"Dell's investment in HyperTransport technology validates the growing appeal of our interconnect standard to mainstream enterprise computing environments," said David Rich, president of the HyperTransport Consortium.

The HyperTransport Consortium consists of more than 50 member companies, including founding member AMD, Apple, Broadcom and Sun Microsystems.
 
Earlier this month, Dell's founder and namesake Michael Dell re-assumed the duties of CEO.