Developers were assured that the development of PCI express 3.0 specifications will be completed to the end of 2009, while in 2010 on the market first products with the support of this interface will appear. According to new information, the final specifications of PCI express 3.0 will be published not earlier than June 2010. Now specifications exist in the version 0.7, whereas series products with the support of new interface will appear not earlier than 2011.
The basic update in PCI express 3.0 - is this case is the support of data transfer with the speed 8 gigas-transaction per second. The existing standard PCI express 2.0 provides the data transmission with speed up to 5 gt/s. . From other side, motherboard producers with the support of PCI express 3.0 will be possible to use a four-layer design .
Chips with PCI express 3.0 support will be released on 65 nm technology or thinner. The first products with PCI express 3.0 support will become motherboard , video card and some server solutions. Video card with PCI express 3.0 interface will preserve reverse compatibility, which corresponds to the PCI express 2.0 and PCI express 1.0 specifications. Related Products :
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