copy&paste von eetimes.com
In addition, AMD and Alpha Processor Inc. (Concord, Mass.) are jointly developing a system bus architecture, called Lightning Data Transport, that will provide bidirectional gigabit/second interconnects between the processor and the PCI channels, system I/O and peripheral ICs. Chip sets equipped with Lightning Data Transport will be used in Alpha-based servers well before AMD has finished Sledgehammer.
*urgs*