WYP
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Leaked Intel server roadmap reveals DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 plans
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I know some in the industry who don't need cutting edge hardware are looking at skipping updating to PCIe4 since PCIe5's development occurred concurrently and seemed mostly unhindered by the issues that delayed PCIe4, so the gap between product availability is apparently going to be far shorter than with any past revision, and any investment in hardware to fully take advantage of PCIe4 wouldn't be nearly as cost effective as PCIe5 if you don't need to do wide hardware changes in that ~18 months(Probably over 24 for consumer hardware though I think).
WYP
News Guru
That makes sense, skip PCIe 4.0 and update for PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 in one go.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I would expect to have NVMe drives not to long after tbh. A pcie5.0 drive running with 1 Lane would be equal to x4 3.0 drives right now. Wouldn't be crazy difficult to do.
Also helps with Thunderbolt technology. Which for VR or external GPU boxes would be immensely important.
Yeah the devices usually come before the motherboards/CPUs with PCIe, at least with enterprise parts. The first PCIe4 GPUs launched last November. The first PCIe5 GPUs are expected in 2021 (From Intel at least). It's the basis for their CXL spec, which had many people from their team that worked on the PCIe5 and USB4 specs(Including the built in "TB" functionality).
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