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• Dr_Mobeyos - Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - link

  They should have gone for an opto-eletic parallel interface, cause thats where we are heading in a few years with NPU cards anyway. Reply

• Fallen Kell - Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - link

  The only issue with that would be dealing with bend radius issues related to an optical cable. Easier to go copper than to deal with the inevitable issues of fragile optical cables. Reply

• ballsystemlord - Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - link

  I'm surprised they don't have a PCIe 4.0 standard in the above page 15 slide. Did they omit it from the slide or did the standard never exist? Reply

• LiKenun - Saturday, May 4, 2024 - link

  If I recall, OCuLink’s PCIe 4.0-capable update was in the works. 4.0 cables exist, but I don’t think the standard was ever released officially.
  
  (I have OCuLink cables, adapters, and enclosures professing PCIe 4.0 capability, but have often found stability lacking.) Reply

• JTWrenn - Thursday, May 2, 2024 - link

  Hopefully this will lead to new formfactors for larger m.2 speed ssd's. Reply

• Fallen Kell - Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - link

  That is what the U.2 format (and U.3) are for. Reply

• Hresna - Sunday, May 5, 2024 - link

  I wonder if this might enable some more novel form factors for SFF pc motherboards with fewer compromises, or perhaps curtail the need of bulky and unwieldy gpu riser cables for some designs Reply

• DougMcC - Sunday, May 5, 2024 - link

  With more than 4x the bandwidth of displayport/hdmi and a reach of 2m I wonder if anyone is thinking about using this to deliver data to displays. Reply