Chips inside today's computers process data with ferocious speed. But a computer's performance is limited by how fast data travels between, say, the memory and logic chips. Buses, the devices that move data between computers' components, are notorious bottlenecks. But their reputation could be on the mend, thanks to a consortium of chip and computer-equipment makers created to commercialize a lightning-fast bus technology from Advanced Micro Devices.

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