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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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