The final draft for the PCIexpress 7.0 standard has been finalized and the PCI-SIG members who have been working on it have settled on it just being crazy fast. No ifs or buts. It doubles the ...
TL;DR: PCI-SIG announced the PCIe 8.0 specification, doubling PCIe 7.0's data rate to 256 GT/s and enabling up to 1 TB/s bi-directional throughput via x16. Targeted for 2028, PCIe 8.0 supports AI, ML, ...
PCI-SIG initially announced the next-generation PCIe 7.0 standard back in 2022, but now the organization behind the PCIe standards -- PCI-SIG, duh -- has announced version 0.5 of PCIe 7.0, now ...
So in theory PCI-e is backwards compatible, i.e. that if it fits physically, it'll run electronically. In reality, we hear stories all the time about the x16 slots not working for anything other than ...
I'm skipping PCIe Gen 6 this year, and you probably should too ...