Tundra, Power PC

Host Bridge for PowerPC® Now in Production

News Release from: Tundra Semiconductor Corporation
18/04/2006

Tundra Semiconductor Corporation (TSX: TUN), the leader in System Interconnect, today announced that the Tundra Tsi109 Host Bridge, what is said to be the industry's highest performing host bridge for PowerPC, is in full production. With several host bridges in production and with numerous development platforms available, Tundra is becoming recognized as a market leader of high performance host bridges that meet the performance, power and design support expectations of customers designing with PowerPC.

The Tsi109 Host Bridge sets industry benchmarks for performance and power management through an innovative feature set supported by world-class design support. This host bridge is capable of dual processor support at 167MHz, which enables higher system compute performance. The Tsi109’s superior memory pipeline offers industry-leading memory bandwidth and an optimized PCI-X interface provides greater I/O to memory throughput.

In addition to 2.5Watt typical power dissipation, the Tsi109 supports DDR2 memory, which makes this host bridge the ideal choice for high-density, power-sensitive applications. The combination of the Tsi109’s features, reliability and Tundra’s world-class support provides designers with the benefits of greater overall system performance, reduced system design complexity, better integration and superior power efficiency.