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Official PCIe 8.0 Draft Aims for 1 TB/s Data Rate

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An official draft of the PCI Express (PCIe) 8.0 specification is out, targeting a blistering 1 terabyte per second when the kit finally hits the streets. The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has released draft 0.5 of the version 8.0 standard, incorporating feedback received from member organizations after the release of draft 0.3 last year. With an expected raw bit rate of 256 gigatransfers per second (GT/s) and up to 1 TB/s bi-directionally…

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While PCIe 5.0 is only beginning to democratize on our machines and PCIe 6.0 is still reserved for the professional world, the PCI-SIG has already released the first public draft of the PCI Express 8.0 specification. A 0.5 version that gives above all an idea of the direction taken by the industry that always tends towards more bandwidth to meet the gigantic needs of AI, HPC and datacenters. With this new generation, PCIe 8.0 targets up to 1TB/s…

PCI-SIG, the consortium that develops and maintains the PCI Express (PCIe) standard, has announced that the PCIe 8.0 specification is available to members. The organization confirms that the standard is still scheduled to be released in 2028. NVMe SSDs with up to 120,000 MB/s will soon be (theoretically) possible PCIe 8.0 is designed to deliver transfer speeds of 256.0 GT/s. It provides up to 1.0 TB/s of bi-directional bandwidth in an x16 config…

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