Welcome to the HyperTransport™ Technology Consortium!

This introductory page and related sub-pages provide a general overview on the HyperTransport Consortium, its industry role and mission, its membership base and its operating model.

Industry Role

The HyperTransport Technology Consortium is a membership-based, non-profit organization responsible for managing, licensing and promoting HyperTransport technology as an open high-performance technology standard industry-wide and worldwide.

Membership Driven

Founded in 2001 by technology leaders Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Alliance Semiconductors, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, NVIDIA, PMC-Sierra and Sun Microsystems, current Consortium members include more than 60 industry-leading companies and academic institutions across the globe. Consortium membership is open to any company interested in royalty-free licensing of HyperTransport technology and the HyperTransport trademarks for commercial use, or to any academic and research institution interested in using HyperTransport technology for its research projects.

Strength Through Membership

The Consortium is member-driven and operates on a parliamentary process. By participating to the Consortium’s Executive Committee meetings, Technical Working Group meetings and/or technical Task Force meetings (depending on membership level), members can contribute to and vote on all Consortium decisions pertaining to HyperTransport technology’s direction and developments. A win-win process, through which members have the power of influencing HyperTransport’s direction, while the Consortium benefits from its members’ technology expertise.

Powerful Business Partner to Members

As return-on-investment for their membership, Consortium members receive extensive technical support benefits that dramatically expedite product development and time-to-market. In addition, they can tap into a complete slate of uniquely powerful, high dollar value business/product promotion services toward global industry and media at no additional cost. In essence, members receive technical and business services - proportional to membership level - that far outweigh their membership fee in value. A definite win for members and a win for the Consortium, who becomes a true business partner to its members.