Originally posted by pioto
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I assume intel may want to support that level of stuff from nvidia and others for the server side.
And what about other possible upcoming use cases for USB / thunderbolt / PCIE for laptop use cases they expect to support before
they generationally change their basic IC technology again?
I also imagine at the data center level networking may be eager to make use of higher bandwidth PCIE already.
Or maybe just a "we did not lose marketing specification parity / superiority with respect to AMD Zen" thing at the consumer level.
To what extent intel wants to use a similar "generation" IC design across some laptop / client desktop / server / data center use cases I don't know -- there are cost advantages to minimize the number of IP cores one has to put into ASICs and verify for a given generation / family of chips so if they want to move SOME things to PCIE5 now then it can be advantageous to do it with others in the same IC / fab / IP core generation.
Anyway since the cpu / chipsets are so horribly pcie lane limited for consumer desktops it kind of makes sense to
"go faster" since you stand a pretty good chance of any PCIE peripheral being stuck running at x8 or x4 width or running out of lanes to handle NVME, USB/TB/DP / NIC, etc.
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