The PCI-SIG PCI Express Gen 7 standard is now available, but work hasn’t stopped there. PCIe Gen 8 is on the horizon with an expected doubling of the bandwidth to 256 GT/s. This will be challenging from a number of perspectives, from support for copper connections at this speed to advances in the protocol.
I talk with Al Yanes, PCI-SIG President and Chair, about PCIe Gen 8, including where we are now, what new features will be added, and its anticipated speed.
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Al Yanes has served as president of the PCI-SIG since 2003 and chairman since 2006 and is a Distinguished Engineer for IBM in the Systems & Technology Division. He has 26 years of experience working with ASIC design in the I/O industry. Yanes holds 25 patents for PCI and other I/O technologies.
Al is a PCI Express technology expert for the IBM Rochester office and he is involved in I/O design for IBM's Server products. He holds a B.S. in computer engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
