PCI-SIC accelerates the creation of PCIe 5.0

PCI-SIC accelerates the creation of PCIe 5.0

PCI-SIC accelerates the creation of PCIe 5.0

 
At the PCI-SIG Developers Conference, the organisation announced that they were accelerating the development of PCIe 5.0, which is designed to offer 128GB/s of total bandwidth, 4x that of PCIe 3.0 when both are using x16 links. 
 
Right now, PCI-SIG expects to complete their PCIe 5.0 standard sometime in 2019, with the organisation already releasing version 0.3 of the standard to their members.  
 
PCIe 5.0 will enable users to get more bandwidth out of fewer PCIe lanes and enable the creation of faster PCIe devices, allowing 400Gb/s Ethernet solutions to be created for servers or to reduce the PCIe requirements of modern M.2, U.2 or PCIe storage devices. 
 
PCI-SIG are designing this standard not to meet modern industry standards but to exceed them, making PCIe 5.0 even faster than Nvidia’s own NVLink 2.0 interconnects.  

 
In our 25-year history, PCI-SIG has maintained its commitment to our rigorous specification development process, while delivering specifications that are in lock-step with industry requirements for high-performance I/O,
 
“PCIe 5.0 technology is the next evolution that will set the standard for speed, and we are confident that its 32GT/s bandwidth will surpass industry needs.

 

  PCI-SIC accelerates the creation of PCIe 5.0

 (PCIe 5.0 x4 is as fast as PCIe 3.0 x16)

 

Moving forward the speed of PCIe lanes will be in great demand, as PCIe storage devices become more common and both NAND and other non-volatile memory standards like XPoint become more common. 

 

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