PCIe 6.0 remains on track for a 2021 launch, delivering breakthrough bandwidth

[WYP]

Expect doubled data rates over PCIe 5.0.



Read more about PCI-SIG's upcoming PCIe 6.0 standard.

 

[Kleptobot]

Take that! PCB layout engineers.

Seriously though, signal integrity for these lanes is going to be a nightmare. Crosstalk and transmission everywhere.

PCIe 4 was already struggling to be routed any meaningful distance without the need for retimers.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Signal integrity will be similar to 5.0

Most of these uses will come from on die transmission. Consumers won't use or see this stuff for a long time outside of on die stuff. No need for it.

 

[grec]

Might be an area where it's adopted in mobile before PCs, biggest benefits initially would probably be reducing the number of lanes (and therefore amount of power) required for storage & IO on battery devices, particularly tablet/phone SoCs which almost always have just 1 or 2 lanes for power reasons.