PCI 3.0 Coming; Intel gets the Green Light.

pjbass writes "This story on ZDnet discusses the next I/O subsystem planned for PC's. It will be PCI 3.0 once making it to the consumers, but it is now known as Arapahoe, or 3GIO. Intel Corp. is responsible for making the technology, and boast its performance will be about 6 times that of PCI2.x, getting up to speeds of 6.6 gigabytes per second of bandwidth initially, with promises to scale more once the technology is mainstream."

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God...

[_newwave_]

...you are a whinny nerd.

Wintel forces you to buy more crap..again.

[foxmajik]

One problem that consumers and companies face with the introduction of a new PCI standard is that, once the standard is born and grows, all current PC hardware will become obsolete. This means that there will be no buying a new processor for your PC (Remember when everything went Slot1 or Socket A?) and calling it good. By re-working the entire subsystem of PC's, Intel has found a new way for Intel and Micros*ft to make MORE MONEY. It's not about faster busses or better hardware, it's about MON-NEY. I can guarentee that as soon as the new Intel spec starts to go mainstream, the newest incarnation of Windows will be ready for it. However, if Intel doesn't let the public have the design specs, we'll all be forced to use MS OS's. Intel has already expressed their disdain for open-source OS's by designing an entire line of USB web cams that are hopelessly obfuscated so that no one could possibly develope drivers for any open-source platform. Intel designs a new chip, Microsoft sells a new OS. Reverse and repeat.