Building on their recent announcement of PCIe 5.0 retimers, Microchip has announced their first PCIe 5.0 switches, as part of their Switchtec PFX product line. On paper these look like a very straightforward update to their existing Switchtec PFX switches for PCIe 4.0, carrying over all the important features but doubling the speed.
The final version of the PCI Express 5.0 specification was released in May 2019, but significant adoption is not expected to begin until Intel s Sapphire Rapids Xeon processors ship, planned for later this year. Microchip is positioning themselves to be one of the most important vendors helping enable the transition, and they expect to be the only company offering both switches and retimers for PCIe 5.0. Components like switches and retimers are becoming increasingly important with each iteration of PCIe as higher speeds are achieved at the cost of range; servers using PCIe 5.0 will only be able to put a handful of devices close enough to the CPU to oper
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Dec 18, 2020 08:58 EST
Intel s next-generation Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPU family is expected to be unveiled by the second half of next year but won t see a volume launch till 2023 as revealed in a leaked slide posted over at Chiphell Forums (via HXL).
Volume Ramp of Intel s Next-Gen Sapphire Rapids Xeon SP CPU Family Not Expected Till 2023, Alleges Rumor
The slide shows Intel s upcoming Xeon CPU families which include the recently launched Cooper Lake-SP along with the upcoming Ice Lake-SP & Sapphire Rapids-SP lineups. Intel was expected to launch its Ice Lake-SP processors this year but they have slipped the 2020 launch schedule & will now be launching in the first half of 2021. However, knowing Intel s 10nm ramp, we cannot say for sure if Ice Lake-SP will be available in full or partial volume.
Today Intel is announcing updates to most of their SSD product lines. Their products based on 3D NAND are being updated to use Intel s 144-layer QLC and TLC NAND. On the Optane side of the business, we have detailed specifications for the first product to use second-generation 3D XPoint memory, and an updated Optane Memory caching solution for client PCs. Intel has also revealed the code name for their third-generation Optane persistent memory modules, which will be launching along Sapphire Rapids Xeon processors.
SSD D7-P5510 - Datacenter NVMe, 144L TLC
SSD D5-P5316 - Datacenter NVMe, 144L QLC
SSD 670p - Client/Consumer NVMe, 144L QLC