PCI-Express Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/pci-express/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 27 Feb 2025 22:23:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg PCI-Express Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/pci-express/ 32 32 86113652 Broadcom Itching To Get PCI-Express 6.0 Into The Field https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/26/broadcom-itching-to-get-pci-express-6-0-into-the-field/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/26/broadcom-itching-to-get-pci-express-6-0-into-the-field/#comments Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:00:45 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145381 With a three year cadence between PCI-Express bandwidth increases and a three year span between when a gear shift is first talked about and when its chippery is first put into the field, it is extremely difficult to not be impatient for the next PCI-Express release to get into the field. …

Broadcom Itching To Get PCI-Express 6.0 Into The Field was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/26/broadcom-itching-to-get-pci-express-6-0-into-the-field/feed/ 4 145381 The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/14/the-increasing-impatience-of-the-speed-of-the-pci-express-roadmap/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/14/the-increasing-impatience-of-the-speed-of-the-pci-express-roadmap/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:09:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144292 Richard Solomon has heard the rumblings over the years. As vice president of PCI-SIG, the organization that controls the development of the PCI-Express specification, he has listened to questions about how long it takes the group to bring the latest spec to the industry. …

The Increasing Impatience Of The Speed Of The PCI-Express Roadmap was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/14/the-increasing-impatience-of-the-speed-of-the-pci-express-roadmap/feed/ 7 144292 Key Hyperscalers And Chip Makers Gang Up On Nvidia’s NVSwitch Interconnect https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/30/key-hyperscalers-and-chip-makers-gang-up-on-nvidias-nvswitch-interconnect/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/30/key-hyperscalers-and-chip-makers-gang-up-on-nvidias-nvswitch-interconnect/#comments Thu, 30 May 2024 12:00:30 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144213 The generative AI revolution is making strange bedfellows, as revolutions and emerging monopolies that capitalize on them, often do. …

Key Hyperscalers And Chip Makers Gang Up On Nvidia’s NVSwitch Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/05/30/key-hyperscalers-and-chip-makers-gang-up-on-nvidias-nvswitch-interconnect/feed/ 11 144213 Pushing PCI-Express Switches And Retimers To Boost Server Bandwidth https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/06/pushing-pci-express-switches-and-retimers-to-boost-server-bandwidth/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/06/pushing-pci-express-switches-and-retimers-to-boost-server-bandwidth/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:02:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143768 Things would go a whole lot better for server designs if we had a two year or better still a four year moratorium on adding faster compute engines to machines. …

Pushing PCI-Express Switches And Retimers To Boost Server Bandwidth was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/06/pushing-pci-express-switches-and-retimers-to-boost-server-bandwidth/feed/ 7 143768 Enfabrica Nabs $125 Million To Ramp Networking Godbox https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/09/14/enfabrica-nabs-125-million-to-ramp-networking-godbox/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/09/14/enfabrica-nabs-125-million-to-ramp-networking-godbox/#comments Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:44:31 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142939 For the past decade or so, we have been convinced by quite a large number of IT suppliers that security functions, network and storage virtualization functions, and even the server virtualization hypervisor for carving up compute itself should be offloaded from servers to intermediaries somewhat illogically called data processing units, or DPUs. …

Enfabrica Nabs $125 Million To Ramp Networking Godbox was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/09/14/enfabrica-nabs-125-million-to-ramp-networking-godbox/feed/ 6 142939 Crafting A DGX-Alike AI Server Out Of AMD GPUs And PCI Switches https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/15/crafting-a-dgx-alike-ai-server-out-of-amd-gpus-and-pci-switches/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/15/crafting-a-dgx-alike-ai-server-out-of-amd-gpus-and-pci-switches/#comments Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:21:48 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142757 Not everybody can afford an Nvidia DGX AI server loaded up with the latest “Hopper” H100 GPU accelerators or even one of its many clones available from the OEMs and ODMs of the world. …

Crafting A DGX-Alike AI Server Out Of AMD GPUs And PCI Switches was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/08/15/crafting-a-dgx-alike-ai-server-out-of-amd-gpus-and-pci-switches/feed/ 3 142757 PCI-Express Must Match The Cadence Of Compute Engines And Networks https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/07/pci-express-must-match-the-cadence-of-compute-engines-and-networks/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/07/pci-express-must-match-the-cadence-of-compute-engines-and-networks/#comments Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:14:09 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142625 When system architects sit down to design their next platforms, they start by looking at a bunch of roadmaps from suppliers of CPUs, accelerators, memory, flash, network interface cards – and PCI-Express controllers and switches. …

PCI-Express Must Match The Cadence Of Compute Engines And Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/07/07/pci-express-must-match-the-cadence-of-compute-engines-and-networks/feed/ 10 142625 The “Hopper” GPU Compute Ramp Finally Starts https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2022 04:40:24 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=141228 You can’t be certain about a lot of things in the world these days, but one thing you can count on is the voracious appetite for parallel compute, high bandwidth memory, and high bandwidth networking for AI training workloads. …

The “Hopper” GPU Compute Ramp Finally Starts was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/09/21/the-hopper-gpu-compute-ramp-finally-starts/feed/ 6 141228 The Path Is Set For PCI-Express 7.0 In 2025 https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/23/the-path-is-set-for-pci-express-7-0-in-2025/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/23/the-path-is-set-for-pci-express-7-0-in-2025/#respond Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:27:25 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140806 The ink is barely dry on the PCI-Express 6.0 specification, which was released after years of development in January 2022, we hardly have PCI-Express 5.0 peripherals in the market, and the PCI-SIG organization that controls the PCI-Express standard for peripheral interconnects already has us all coveting the bandwidth that will come later in the decade with PCI-Express 7.0 interconnects. …

The Path Is Set For PCI-Express 7.0 In 2025 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/06/23/the-path-is-set-for-pci-express-7-0-in-2025/feed/ 0 140806 Composing The Impossible Server https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/01/12/composing-the-impossible-server/ Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:45:17 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=139860 Paid Feature There are many ways to scale up and scale out systems, and that is a problem as much as it is a solution for distributed systems architects. …

Composing The Impossible Server was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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