http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/18/intel_tcpip_attack/
Intel to attack greedy TCP/IP stack
Intel next year will plant itself square in the middle of the budding
market for systems that speed network traffic by rolling out something
called I/OAT.
I/OAT stands for I/O Acceleration Technology and it will be previewed
for the first time at next month's Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San
Francisco. Intel remains cagey about what exactly I/OAT is, but it
dangled a few details today in front of reporters ahead of the IDF event.
[...]
Intel plans to sidestep the need for separate TOE cards by building this
technology into its server processor package - the chip itself, chipset
and network controller. This should reduce some of the time a processor
typically spends waiting for memory to feed back information and improve
overall application processing speeds.
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