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Aug 11, 2020

One of the many new features included in the PCI Express® (PCIe®) specification will be PAM4 (Pulse Amplitude Modulation with 4 levels) signaling.

  • Systems & Applications
  • PCIe 6.0
  • PCI Express 6.0
  • What is PAM4
  • PAM4
  • PCIe FEC
  • Forward Error Correction
Dec 19, 2019

As I look back on 2019, I’m proud to report that it has been a banner year for PCI-SIG®.

  • Systems & Applications
  • PCIe 6.0
  • PCI Express 6.0
  • PCIe 5.0
  • PCI Express 5.0
  • OCP Summit
  • Flash Memory Summit
Jun 19, 2019

I am happy to share that PCI-SIG® has begun developing the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 6.0 specification, targeted for release in 2021.

  • Systems & Applications
  • PCIe 6.0
  • PCI Express 6.0
  • PCIe PAM4
  • PCIe FEC
  • PCIe Forward Error Correction
  • PCIe 6.0 specification
  • PCI Express 6.0 Specification
  • PCI Express PAM4
  • PCIe 6.0 FEC
  • PCI Express 6.0 FEC
  • PCIe6.0 Forward Error Correction
  • PCI Express 6.0 Forward Error Correction
May 19, 2019

I am pleased to announce that PCI Express® 5.0 specification, Version 1.0— reaching 32GT/s transfer rates—has been released to our members in less than 2 years.

  • Systems & Applications
  • PCI-SIG
  • PCIe 5.0
  • PCI Express 5.0
  • PCI-SIG Membership
Apr 03, 2019

his year, I was lucky enough to be able to attend and present at the Open Compute Project Summit and though it has come and gone by now, I’m already looking forward to the next one! 

  • Systems & Applications
  • PCI-SIG
  • PCIe 4.0
  • PCI Express 4.0
  • Open Compute Project Summit
  • PCIe 5.0
  • PCI Express 5.0
Aug 24, 2018

PCI Express® – also known as PCIe – used to get a bad rap for being power hungry on servers and PCs. But I’m happy to say that this is no longer the case. Are you aware that PCIe today is extremely power efficient with built-in low power features?

  • Systems & Applications
  • PCI-SIG
  • PCI Express 3.0
  • PCIe 3.0
  • PCIe Latency
  • PCIe low power
Apr 25, 2018

I recently attended the OCP Summit for the first time and I was impressed by the size of this growing event. The San Jose Convention Center was packed with industry experts – all eager to discuss how to move the Open Compute Project (OPC) forward.

  • Systems & Applications
  • PCI-SIG
  • OCP Summit
  • Open Compute Project
  • PCIe 4.0
  • PCI Express 4.0