PCI-SIG Unveils PCIe 8.0 At A Screaming-Fast 1TB/s For Hungry AI Workloads

Sorry buster, but your fancy build with its PCI Express 5.0 support is obsolete. Old news. Yesterday's tech. Woefully behind. And...we're just kidding, so don't go tossing your Intel Arrow Lake or AMD Ryzen 9000 series build in the garbage. That said, PCI SIG is always looking ahead and has now announced some preliminary specifications for its not-yet-finalized PCI Express 8.0 protocol.

What happened to PCIe 6 and 7? Both are already official, just not widely adopted. For a number of reasons, these things take time to be implemented on new platforms. Case in point, PCI-SIG finalized the PCIe 6.0 specification back in January 2022, and it took until last week for the first PCIe 6.0 SSD to arrive, courtesy of Micron's 9650. No consumer platforms support the PCIe 6.0 spec yet, so as enticing as the 9650's rated ...