Does HTX replace generic peripheral interconnect standards?
HTX targets low latency, compute-intensive subsystem product applications – e.g. algorithm acceleration, security, encryption/decryption and media processing, CPU/memory scalability, networking and clustering – rather than general-purpose, end-user type peripheral applications already egregiously served by other interconnect standards like PCI-X or PCI Express. HTX is not meant to replace but rather complement the above peripheral I/O interconnect standards by delivering the performance edge that they cannot deliver. HTX connectors are typically co-reside with PCI-X and/or PCI Express connectors on the same system board.
