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Re:PCIe 8.0 Announced by the PCI-Sig Will Double Throughput ... by LeoPanthera on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @04:02PM (#44893141)
Bring back the S100 bus and put literally everything on a card. Your motherboard is just a dumb bus backplane.
Re:PCIe 8.0 Announced by the PCI-Sig Will Double Throughput ... by MBCook on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @05:16PM (#44893945)
We were moving that way, sorta, with Slot 1 and Slot A.

Then that became unnecessary when L2 cache went on-die.