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AUGUST NEWSLETTER
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1. New products: PCIe Gen6 Retimer and
Redriver boards release |
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2. PCIe 8.0 specification announcement and
PCIe roadmap. |
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3. FMS 2025: trends, standout products, and
behind-the-scenes moments.
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4. Micron Launches World’s First PCIe Gen6
SSD |
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5. BONUS picture: 1956 - 5 MB IBM hard
drive needs a whole freight truck |
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PCIe Gen6 Redriver Board |
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PCIe Gen6 Redriver Board |
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PCIe 8.0 Specs Target
Release |
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The PCI-SIG has officially announced development of PCIe 8.0,
expected to finalize by 2028, doubling the raw data rate to
256 GT/s and delivering up to 1 TB/s bi‑directional bandwidth
over x16 configurations. |
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Key objectives include reviewing new
connector tech, meeting latency and FEC reliability targets,
maintaining backward compatibility, and improving power
efficiency that is critical for AI/ML, quantum computing, edge,
automotive, aerospace, and hyperscale data centers. |
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Why Should It Matter to You?
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Skyrocketing Bandwidth Demands: Next-gen workloads, like
AI training, HPC, edge computing, and hyperscale data centers,
rely on ultra‑high throughput. PCIe 8.0 delivers double the
capacity of PCIe 7.0 and 8× the bandwidth of PCIe 5.0.
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1. Consistent Backward Compatibility: Each PCIe
generation remains compatible with prior versions, preserving
investment in ecosystem tools like cards, switches, and
interconnects.
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2. Signal Integrity Challenges Accelerate: As GT/s speeds
double with each generation, maintaining link quality across
copper, connectors, or cable assemblies becomes exponentially
harder, driving demand for advanced hardware like our Gen6
retimers and redrivers.
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3. Advance Planning is Key: With PCIe 7.0 finalized in
mid‑2025 and PCIe 8.0 on the horizon by 2028, planning your
signal integrity strategy today ensures you're ready for future
platform upgrades.
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FMS 2025 in Santa Clara: Our Takeaways |
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FMS this
year was excellent in terms of the conversations we had and the
connections we made. The
number of vendors and the foot traffic was lighter compared to
last year, but the event still provided a valuable platform for
us to meet face to face with our industry partners. |
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It was also exciting to see so many of our
products featured in client demos, including
those from Microchip and Marvell.
(Below some of pictures of their excellent
hardware demos) |
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A major theme at FMS this year was the rapid
growth of AI and the mounting demands on data
infrastructure to support both training and
inference.w
One highlight was the keynote "Executive AI
Panel: Memory and Storage Scaling for AI
Inferencing" on the last day, featuring leaders
from NVIDIA, KIOXIA, IBM, VAST Data, and SK
Hynix. |
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Micron's First PCIe Gen6 SSD |
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Why Should It Matter to You?
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1. The launch of the Micron 9650 shows real-world PCIe Gen6 deployment in enterprise AI, confirming the urgency for
signal-conditioning solutions today even before specification
maturity.
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2. High-speed SSDs like the 9650 highlight the need for robust
interconnect validation tools across devices, platforms, and
workloads. |
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3. As data centers push towards Gen6 infrastructure, analog
signal equalization and retiming (as delivered by advanced
redrivers and retimers) will become essential to sustain signal
quality and reliability.
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1956 IBM 5MB Drive being shipped |
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We just
went to FMS and talked about storage for a whole week. So here's
a reminder of how far we’ve come. In 1956, IBM shipped the
world’s first computer to use a hard disk drive for data
storage, the IBM 305 RAMAC, by freight. |
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The drive weighed over a ton and
stored just shy of 5 megabytes of data or about the equivalent
of three minutes of scrolling Instagram on a mobile
connection today. Housed in a cabinet the size of two
refrigerators, it marked a groundbreaking moment in data storage
history. |
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it required a forklift just to load and
transport. IBM reportedly valued the disk drive
at $50,000 in 1956, which would be more than
$550,000 in today’s money. For comparison, you
can buy a 1TB SD card, small enough to fit in a
camera, for around $100 plus tax.
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About
Gopalam Embedded Systems
Gopalam Embedded Systems Pte Ltd
(GES) is an associate company of the ESA Group in India. GES,
together with the other ESA Group of companies, offers a wide range
of highly integrated hardware and software embedded solutions
ranging from - Development Suites, Middle-ware Solutions, In-Circuit
Debuggers/Emulators, Connectivity Solutions and Hardware Subsystems.
Through our ecosystem of tools and development solutions from
leading vendors across the world, we holistically support the
entire development life-cycle of embedded systems from design,
development, debugging to verification and validation.
Email:
sales@embeddedsingapore.com
Website:
www.embeddedsingapore.com/
Phone: (65) 6295
1646
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