PCI Express Accelerates To 5 Gbits/s

KingFishKingFish
edited December 2004 in Science & Tech
The PCI Special Interest Group has voted to make 5 Gbits/s the data rate for the next-generation of PCI Express, adding another multigigabit physical layer serial interconnect to a growing crowd.
Express is taking off rapidly in the PC, where it was initially aimed, but faces stiff competition among other link technologies in communications and storage networking gear.

The so-called Gen2 spec is scheduled to be finished by the end of 2005, and will hit the market in products by 2007. The group also investigated 5, 6 and 6.25 Gbits/s as possible next-generation speeds.

The 6.25 Gbits/s speed aligns with next-generation Ethernet interconnects now coming on line from several vendors. It was also said to be favored by graphics companies hungry for maximum bandwidth. The 6 Gbits/s rate was also favored by backers of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), who selected that speed for their road map.
Source: EE Times

Comments

  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited December 2004
    Woo. ****ing. Hoo. Add it to the growing list of new technology that's utterly worthless for the time being. Right along side SATAII, AGP 8X and PCI Express x16
  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited December 2004
    on the defense of these fun new technologies
    -SATAII does have some good features (better connector, NCQ, and an actual external SATA spec)
    -AGP 3.0 had the ability to have multiple AGP slots,
    -PCI express 16x will be useful in the future for other purposes, not just graphics, such as the mentioned high speed interconnects, and a other things.
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