The release of PCIe 4.0 rev 1.0 in October 2017 was anticlimactic after the announcement of PCIe 5.0 rev 0.3 at last year’s PCI-SIG DevCon. Fast forward, this year’s DevCon has kicked off and the SIG is clearly demonstrating its commitment to the accelerated development of PCIe 5.0.
PCIe 5.0 rev 0.7 is published and already out for membership review as of May. The big-ticket item is, of course, support for 32GT/s.