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Future Proofing Inference Servers With PCI-Express Switches

March 27, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

At this point in the history of datacenter systems, there can be no higher praise than to be chosen by Nvidia as a component supplier for its AI systems. …

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Broadcom Itching To Get PCI-Express 6.0 Into The Field

February 26, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

With a three year cadence between PCI-Express bandwidth increases and a three year span between when a gear shift is first talked about and when its chippery is first put into the field, it is extremely difficult to not be impatient for the next PCI-Express release to get into the field. …

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Pushing PCI-Express Switches And Retimers To Boost Server Bandwidth

March 6, 2024 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

Things would go a whole lot better for server designs if we had a two year or better still a four year moratorium on adding faster compute engines to machines. …

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PCI-Express 5.0: The Unintended But Formidable Datacenter Interconnect

February 3, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 6

If the datacenter had been taken over by InfiniBand, as was originally intended back in the late 1990s, then PCI-Express peripheral buses and certainly PCI-Express switching – and maybe even Ethernet switching itself – would not have been necessary at all. …

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