{"id":234908,"date":"2017-10-27T11:30:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T09:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=234908"},"modified":"2017-10-27T11:31:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T09:31:23","slug":"pcie-4-0-specification-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/234908-pcie-4-0-specification-released.html","title":{"rendered":"PCIe 4.0 specification released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PCI-SIG has released the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pcisig.com\/specifications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">specifications for PCIe 4.0<\/a><\/strong>, promising double the maximum data transfer rate of PCIe 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>PCI-SIG is an organisation which governs the specifications of the PCIe protocol, and consists of 750 members.<\/p>\n<p>The PCIe 4.0 specification was announced in June, and has now been published.<\/p>\n<p>PCIe 4.0&#8217;s major improvement over the previous specification is a maximum data rate of 16GT\/s, as opposed to PCIe 3.0&#8217;s 8GT\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Additional enhancements delivered by PCIe 4.0 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduced latency.<\/li>\n<li>Lane margining.<\/li>\n<li>Improved scalability.<\/li>\n<li>Improved I\/O virtualisation and platform integration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PCI-SIG said it plans to release the PCIe 5.0 specification in Q2 2019, which is expected to double transfer speeds yet again.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/209266-what-you-need-to-know-before-you-buy-an-ssd.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">What you need to know before you buy an SSD<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCI-SIG has released the specifications for PCIe 4.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":209292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[46924,43846,43450],"class_list":["post-234908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-pci-sig","tag-pcie-4-0","tag-specification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234928,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234908\/revisions\/234928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}