High-speed interconnect

High-Speed ​​Interconnect (often abbreviated to HSI or HSI-Bridge ) is a chip introduced by Nvidia in 2004 to enable graphics chips with a native AGP connection to be used with a PCI Express interface. The main reason for this was that existing chip designs could be used with a new interface.

A reverse variant followed later, which made it possible to connect the new native PCI Express microchips to AGP. This model could be used up to the Geforce 7 series .

ATI Rialto from ATI Technologies has a similar purpose .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Xbitlabs: NVIDIA's NV3x, NV4x High-Speed ​​Interconnect Revealed ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , English, February 28, 2004 
2. ↑ Nvidia: Leading graphics card vendors deliver NVIDIA PCI Express based graphics cards , June 21, 2004