PCIe 8.0 Announced by the PCI-Sig Will Double Throughput Again

Re:PCIe 8.0 Announced by the PCI-Sig Will Double Throughput ... by colejohnson66 on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @06:03PM (#44894405)

Sockets (and especially backplanes) are absolutely atrocious for signal integrity.

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Re:PCIe 8.0 Announced by the PCI-Sig Will Double Throughput ... by pshirshov on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @07:00PM (#44894887)

I guess if it's possible to have 30cm PCIe 5 riser cables, it should be possible to have a backplane with traces of similar length.

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Re:PCIe 8.0 Announced by the PCI-Sig Will Double Throughput ... by namibj on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:26AM (#44898465)

Cables much better sadly, so much so that they started to use cables to jump across the server main board in places.

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