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Bruno Ferreira - Fri, Jun 13, 2025
If you just bought a motherboard with PCIe 5.0 connectivity, there's a chance you may already see it as a little outdated. How so? The PCI-SIG has formally announced the finalization of the PCIe 7.0 protocol, allowing an x16 slot to carry...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Mar 19, 2025
Imagine, for a moment, that you had a brand-new M.2 SSD rated for sequential transfers of over 15 GB/second. Obviously, it's the latest design, using four lanes of PCI Express 5.0 to achieve this immense throughput. Alternatively, it could...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Jan 17, 2025
If you read the headline and thought "wait, what about PCIe 6?" then you must have missed when the spec was finalized back in January... of 2022. That's only three years ago, though, and it is true that PCI-SIG has been accelerating the...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jun 17, 2024
The 2024 PCI-SIG Developers Conference, or "SIG DevCon", took place last week, and one of the most impressive demos on the show floor was undoubtedly Cadence's. The company demonstrated PCIe 7.0 running stable on optical fiber at 128 GT/s...
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Zak Killian - Mon, Jun 10, 2024
Odds are that every PCI Express device you have in your machine right now uses PCIe 4.0 or an older standard. We have PCIe 5.0 support in the latest desktop machines, but there are no PCIe 5.0 graphics cards yet, and while PCIe 5.0 storage...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Apr 03, 2024
As of right now, the fastest PCI Express protocol available on consumer motherboards is PCI Express 5.0, which offers up to 128GB/s of bi-directional x16 bandwidth. While certainly fast, PCI Express 7.0 blows the bandwidth roof off the...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Jun 14, 2023
If you read that and thought, "PCIe 7.0? What happened to 6.0?", don't worry—PCIe 6.0 is already finalized and still on track for product launches that are likely coming next year or the year after. It's just that PCI-SIG refuses to stand...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jun 22, 2022
PCI-SIG (Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group), the standards body responsible for overseeing the development of the PCI Express specification, announced that PCIe 7.0 is on track to bring another huge jump in bandwidth...
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