Tuesday, June 21st 2022
PCI-SIG Announces PCI Express 7.0 Specification to Reach 128 GT/s
PCI-SIG today announced that the PCI Express (PCIe ) 7.0 specification will double the data rate to 128 GT/s and is targeted for release to members in 2025. "For 30 years the guiding principle of PCI-SIG has been, 'If we build it, they will come,'" observed Nathan Brookwood, Research Fellow at Insight 64. "Early parallel versions of PCI technology accommodated speeds of hundreds of megabytes/second, well matched to the graphics, storage and networking demands of the 1990s.
In 2003, PCI-SIG evolved to a serial design that supported speeds of gigabytes/second to accommodate faster solid-state disks and 100MbE Ethernet. Almost like clockwork, PCI-SIG has doubled PCIe specification bandwidth every three years to meet the challenges of emerging applications and markets. Today's announcement of PCI-SIG's plan to double the channel's speed to 512 GB/s (bi-directionally) puts it on track to double PCIe specification performance for another 3-year cycle."
PCI-SIG technical workgroups will be developing the PCIe 7.0 specification with the following feature goals:
The PCIe 7.0 specification is targeted to support emerging applications such as 800 G Ethernet, AI/ML, Cloud and Quantum Computing; and data-intensive markets like Hyperscale Data Centers, High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Military/Aerospace.
In 2003, PCI-SIG evolved to a serial design that supported speeds of gigabytes/second to accommodate faster solid-state disks and 100MbE Ethernet. Almost like clockwork, PCI-SIG has doubled PCIe specification bandwidth every three years to meet the challenges of emerging applications and markets. Today's announcement of PCI-SIG's plan to double the channel's speed to 512 GB/s (bi-directionally) puts it on track to double PCIe specification performance for another 3-year cycle."
- Delivering 128 GT/s raw bit rate and up to 512 GB/s bi-directionally via x16 configuration
- Utilizing PAM4 (Pulse Amplitude Modulation with 4 levels) signaling
- Focusing on the channel parameters and reach
- Continuing to deliver the low-latency and high-reliability targets
- Improving power efficiency
- Maintaining backwards compatibility with all previous generations of PCIe technology
The PCIe 7.0 specification is targeted to support emerging applications such as 800 G Ethernet, AI/ML, Cloud and Quantum Computing; and data-intensive markets like Hyperscale Data Centers, High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Military/Aerospace.
16 Comments on PCI-SIG Announces PCI Express 7.0 Specification to Reach 128 GT/s
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They are FINALLY catching up to my pcie-218.74 rig with 681.59ZB of ram, which I've had running since 2002, bout friggin time.....hahahahaha :)
And in case you were wondering, those triangle shaped guys that built the pyramids leased it to me, for about 536 years, or until they come back this way again.... :roll:
Graphics card: AMD Radeon 11550 XT PCIe 7.0 x1.
Monitor: model year 1989 1920x1080.
Internet speed: 10 MBit.
Windows 10.
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One thing I do see coming, is reducing the amount of lanes a graphics card will have access to, I would not be surprised to hear of the standard shifting to a x8 interface instead when we get to PCie6, to help get round these signal issues.
Simply stay with PCIe 4.0 x16 until it becomes a major bottleneck, like the current state of mechanical HDD is.