PCI Express 7.0 Specification Announced - Hitting 128 GT/s In 2025

[pinguinpc]

Well Well amd will be happy because them stay ready for future x400/x500 xt card with 0.5 lanes XXDDD because 1 lane is too much for users (lisa su asking for who think in our shareholders and in next lisa su bugatti)

[CommunityMember]

There really isn't any obvious use-case that I can see for such bandwidth, at least outside of HPC or scientific data acquisition, perhaps

And the hyperscalers (which you may be including in your HPC group). But those are the customers that drive the industry forward because they do have a need, and they spend a lot of money ("follow the money" works for both LE and system design).

[theriddick]

LOL yes, I look forward to the the Nvidia 6090... comes complete with NVME port and optional cpu socket.

And a small nuclear reactor to power it!

[risho]

if only we could get a new version of thunderbolt with each new version of pcie.

[caligula]

Come on, it's too early! I don't think there are any consumer PCIe 5.0 devices on the market...

But there is a huge need for PCIe 10.0. One word: snaps

Without huge speedups in single-threaded decoding speed (CPU) and PCIe bandwidth, future Ubuntu versions will launch apps slower and slower. Even today PCIe 4.0 & latest gen Intel i9 is on par with spinning rust HDDs and 1st gen Core i7. There's a desperate need for faster hardware. It won't take long before the apps inside the snaps will be 100% js node+electron based, slowing down the system even more.

[zexelon]

And a small nuclear reactor to power it!

Oh no no no, you wont need more then a light weight battery after you get rid of all the other power hogs in the computer... I mean the 4090 is rumored to consume up to 800W... so clearly its the CPU and RAM that are pushing the power draw limits over that value

[commodore256]

I think this spec might be mostly be used for glue logic chiplets for accelerators that would normally experience latency bottlenecks in slots. Like AI, Media Engines, really big iGPUs that take over Nvida's xx70 tier

[CommunityMember]

And a small nuclear reactor to power it!

Well, fusion has always been 30 years away. If nVidia can deliver it sooner I am all for that.

[cynyr]

lol in 2032 pc will be a graphic card and maybe some ram, and that should do it.

a GPU, and a DPU for my 100Gig networking and OS. RDMA to the NAS's NVME SSDs to load the OS and all my file from.

[tildearrow]

But there is a huge need for PCIe 10.0. One word: snaps

Without huge speedups in single-threaded decoding speed (CPU) and PCIe bandwidth, future Ubuntu versions will launch apps slower and slower. Even today PCIe 4.0 & latest gen Intel i9 is on par with spinning rust HDDs and 1st gen Core i7. There's a desperate need for faster hardware. It won't take long before the apps inside the snaps will be 100% js node+electron based, slowing down the system even more.

Eventually Canonical will rewrite the Linux kernel in JavaScript, and then.......

...off-topic much? ;p