retimer Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/retimer/ 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 retimer Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/retimer/ 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 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 PCI-Express 5.0: The Unintended But Formidable Datacenter Interconnect https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/03/pci-express-5-0-the-unintended-but-formidable-datacenter-interconnect/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/02/03/pci-express-5-0-the-unintended-but-formidable-datacenter-interconnect/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2021 04:50:57 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=137831 If the datacenter had been taken over by InfiniBand, as was originally intended back in the late 1990s, then PCI-Express peripheral buses and certainly PCI-Express switching – and maybe even Ethernet switching itself – would not have been necessary at all. …

PCI-Express 5.0: The Unintended But Formidable Datacenter Interconnect was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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