ASMedia at CES 2025: High-Speed Transmission and AI

[btarunr]

ASMedia Technology Inc., a leading provider of high-speed transmission interface ICs, showcased its latest innovations at CES 2025, focusing on USB4, Thunderbolt 4, and PCIe Gen 4 Switch technologies. These new technologies can be used in many different applications such as consumer electronics, AI, HPC, and industrial computing.

Key highlights include:

• PCIe Gen 4 Switch ASM58000 Series: This low-power, cost-effective solution offers high bandwidth (up to 16 Gbps per lane), ideal for servers, edge computing, NAS, surveillance storage, and industrial PCs. It excels in demanding applications like AI, ML, and HPC.
• USB4 ASM2464PDX with AI Enhancements: The USB4 device controller ASM2464PDX empowers PCs with enhanced AI capabilities. By leveraging USB4 and PCIe, it enables seamless external GPU connectivity for AI tasks, gaming, and content creation.
• Comprehensive USB4 Solutions: ASMedia demonstrated a complete range of USB4 solutions, including host, device, and peripheral controllers, ensuring optimal compatibility and backward compatibility with Thunderbolt 3/4 and legacy USB standards.

Attendees at CES 2025 will have the opportunity to experience the following:

• PCIe Gen 4 Switch ASM58012: This switch delivers high performance, flexibility, and efficiency for servers, edge computing, NAS, and industrial automation, all at a competitive price.
• USB4 ASM4242 Host Controller: Experience up to 40 Gbps transfer speeds, ideal for high-resolution video and VR applications, with seamless cross-platform compatibility.
• USB4 ASM2464PDX Device Controller: This device controller bridges USB and PCIe, enabling high-speed connections to GPUs and NVMe SSDs for improved data processing and expanded edge computing possibilities.
• ASM3074C USB Hub Controller: This hub offers 20 Gbps data transfer speeds, versatile expansion, backward compatibility, and fast charging.
• With these innovations, ASMedia continues to lead the industry in high-speed transmission interface technology.

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[Drash]

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The marketing wankateers dictionary. Lol.

In other "news" I'm really enjoying this Belgian Trappist ale.

I actually look forward to CES more that most, but it does need a heavy bullshit filter.

 

[TheLostSwede]

A leading, up to, ideal, demanding, AI, enhancements, empowers, enhanced, leveraging, seamless, content creation, comprehensive, optimal, opportunity, flexibility, competitve, exprerience, ideal, seamless (again), cross-platform, improved, expanded, possibilities, versatile, fast, innovations, lead.

The marketing wankateers dictionary. Lol.

In other "news" I'm really enjoying this Belgian Trappist ale.

I actually look forward to CES more that most, but it does need a heavy bullshit filter.

This is a component though, it doesn't claim to do "ai", it's for use in "ai" servers.

 

[Drash]

This is a component though, it doesn't claim to do "ai", it's for use in "ai" servers.

So 26 rather than 27 buzz words/phrases - a 3.7% reduction, which as an engineer I consider noise/measurement error or tolerance aka the same

 

[Cheeseball]

This is a component though, it doesn't claim to do "ai", it's for use in "ai" servers.

Any reason why they're continuing to market the ASM2464PDX and non-X? Do you happen to know if they have any USBv2 (80 Gbps) stuff in the pipeline?

I'm asking you since you still seem to have insights in the industry

 

[TheLostSwede]

Any reason why they're continuing to market the ASM2464PDX and non-X? Do you happen to know if they have any USBv2 (80 Gbps) stuff in the pipeline?

Anything specific you're concerned about? The only difference is USB PD support and maybe their customers aren't interested in the non PD version?

As for USB4 80 Gbps, they were showing early prototype stuff at Computex last year, so we might see some hardware this year.

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I'm asking you since you still seem to have insights in the industry

Well, I do have some very good connections in this specific case.

 

[igormp]

I had hoped for an updated version of their 1166 Sata controller to PCIe 4.0, bummer :/

 

[Cheeseball]

Anything specific you're concerned about? The only difference is USB PD support and maybe their customers aren't interested in the non PD version?

As for USB4 80 Gbps, they were showing early prototype stuff at Computex last year, so we might see some hardware this year.

ASMedia Leads with USB 80 Gbps and 120 Gbps Technology, PCIe Gen 5 Expands Transmission Capabilities

Under the theme "Incredible Speed, Exceeding the Limit," ASMedia showcased its latest USB4 80 Gbps, 120 Gbps, and PCIe Gen 5 physical layer chips at Computex 2024. This demonstration highlighted ASMedia's leading position in the high-speed transmission field and outlined a one-stop solution for...

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Well, I do have some very good connections in this specific case.

Not much but just wondering if USB4v2 would be making its way downtown soon, but I guess not since USB4v1 (40 Gbps) is still technically spreading out with more devices now. At least we now have something better than the older JHL7440 TB4 on PCI-E 3.0 stuff.