Thursday, June 12th 2008
PCI SIG Unveils More PCI-Express 3.0 Details
Al Yanes, chairman of the PCI Special Interest Group (SIG) shared on Wednesday some additional details of the next generation PCI-Express 3.0 standard. The PCI-E 3.0 specification will almost double the transfer speed of PCI-E 2.0 at 8GT/s (gigatransfers per second). The good news is that PCI-Express 3.0 will be backwards-compatible with PCI Express 2.0. Since the connector will remain the same, the only difference should be in the electrical specifications. The final specs for the PCI-E 3.0 standard are expeted to be completed in late 2009, while testing is set to start in the second half of 2010. First products that will utilize the new slot will start surfacing some time after that.
Source:
ExtremeTech
8 Comments on PCI SIG Unveils More PCI-Express 3.0 Details
By the way, PCIe 1.0a/1.1 also used 8B/10B so 2.5 GT/s was actually 2.0 GT/s (and PCIe 2.0 doubles that).
I just wanted to clear that up.
Same with video card vendors - a GPU design might take 2 years to come out, and it'd be rather nice if they had 3.0 as a standard before they started.
I think some things are being rushed before their use has been proved empiricly, the thought behind design should be about usability, practability, and stability. If you overengineer anything you get less actual usability and ease of use and limit creative uses that are happenstance. Stability should be applied after emergence of new tech, I am not opposed to new tech or innovation of existing tech, however make what exists better, not trash for a landfill before it literally died.