PCI Express 3.0 Delayed Till 2011

Professor_Quail writes "PC Magazine reports that the PCI SIG has officially delayed the release of the PCI Express 3.0 specification until the second quarter of 2010. Originally, the PCI Express 3.0 specification called for the spec itself to be released this year, with products due about a year after the spec's release, or in 2010."

Comments

Re:Who cares

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I'm guessing that PCIe 3 isn't really aimed at people playing games on single socket systems with outdated graphics cards. It probably isn't really aimed at desktops, at present.

Cluster interconnects, high speed storage attachment, and various flavors of coprocessors are always hungry for more bandwidth.

Re:Who cares

[Amouth]

but isnt' that the point of making it a channelized system? where each channel is full duplex? they can jsut add more channels as needed.

16x - 20x - 24x - 32x

you can plug a 1x or 4x card in a 16x slot and have it work - hell if you wanted to you could make a 3x card..

adding more available channels on the slot is much less of a change to it than PICX was to PCI.. and that actualy turned out to work quite well..

i'm all for increasing the speed of interconnects - but adding more lanes seems to work just as well - jsut costs alittle more in terms of copper..