PCI-SIG
The PCI-Express interconnect standard may be going through some major changes in the coming years, based on a new announcement from the group responsible for the standard. The PCI-SIG is announcing this morning the formation of a PCIe Optical Workgroup, whose remit will be to work on enabling PCIe over optical interfaces. And while the group is still in its earliest of stages, the ramifications for the traditionally copper-bound standard could prove significant, as optical technology would bypass some increasingly stubborn limitations of copper signaling that traditional PCIe is soon approaching. First released in the year 2000, PCI-Express was initially developed around the use of high-density edge connectors, which are still in use to this day. The PCIe Card Electromechanical specification (CEM) defines the PCIe...
PCI Express 7.0 Spec Hits Draft 0.3, 512GBps Connectivity on Track For 2025 Release
In what’s quickly becoming a very busy week for data center and high-performance computing news, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is hosting its annual developers conference over in...
5 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2023PCI Express 6.0 Specification Finalized: x16 Slots to Reach 128GBps
This morning the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) is releasing the much-awaited final (1.0) specification for PCI Express 6.0. The next generation of the ubiquitous bus is once again...
77 by Ryan Smith on 1/11/2022Update: PCI Express 6.0 Draft 0.71 Released, Final Release by End of Year
Update 07/02: Albeit a couple of days later than expected, the PCI-SIG has announced this morning that the PCI Express draft 0.71 specification has been released for member review...
103 by Ryan Smith on 7/2/2021PCIe 6.0 Specification Hits Version 0.5: On Track for 2021
PCI-SIG has released version 0.5 of the PCIe 6.0 specification to its members this week. The new, "first draft" version of the spec includes the feedback the group got...
74 by Anton Shilov on 2/21/2020PCIe 6.0 Dev Reaches v0.3; On-Track for a Full Specification In 2021
Having wrapped up their work on the PCI-Express 5.0 specification earlier this year, the PCI-SIG wasted no time in getting to work on the next version of the specification...
45 by Ryan Smith on 10/15/2019PCI Express Bandwidth to Be Doubled Again: PCIe 6.0 Announced, Spec to Land in 2021
When the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) first announced PCIe 4.0 a few years back, the group made it clear that they were not just going to make up...
120 by Ryan Smith on 6/18/2019PCI-SIG Finalizes PCIe 5.0 Specification: x16 Slots to Reach 64GB/sec
Following the long gap after the release of PCI Express 3.0 in 2010, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) set about a plan to speed up the development and...
55 by Ryan Smith on 5/29/2019PCI-SIG Warns Of Incompatibilities Between M.2 And Samsung's NGSFF/NF1
PCI-SIG, the standards committee behind PCI Express and related standards, has issued a warning about incompatibilities between their M.2 standard and Samsung's NGSFF/NF1 SSD form factor. The notice from...
17 by Billy Tallis on 11/16/2018PCI-SIG Finalizes and Releases PCIe 4.0, Version 1 Specification: 2x PCIe Bandwidth and More
This week, PCI-standards consortium PCI-SIG (Special Interest Group) has ratified and released specifications for PCIe 4.0 Specification Version 1, uploading the documents to their PCI-SIG Specification Library. This marks...
27 by Nate Oh on 10/26/2017