Thought Thunderbolt was the best superfast interconnect on the town? Well, it truly is and may be for a short while yet, however the PCI Special Interest Group has just held its annual meeting and developer conference in California, where plans for a 32Gbps PCIe cable were revealed. Details are still fluid on precisely what this sort of connector would appear to be and do, however the expectation is that it’s going to be built out of copper wire, shall be flatter and thinner than Thunderbolt’s rotund construction, and may be capable of channel power in addition to data through to devices as much as 10 feet (3m) away. Targeting consumer applications, and additional skinny tablets and laptops specifically, this cabled style of PCI Express will start out in line with the 3.0 spec in 2013, but will then move on from there to PCI Express 4.0 and, potentially, optical data conveyance. Oh yes, PCIe 4.0 also got announced by the PCI SIG, though that’s a minimum of four years away at this point — no use to sweat about having it on your next motherboard, not yet anyway.
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