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2021-12-30, 08:25

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Originally Posted by PB PM View Post
Not exactly what I meant, yes it’s a newly shipping as a product, but the standard was out and available for developers for a few years now. IIRC PCIe 4.0 was not even finalized, or in shipping products before the early phases of development for PCIe 5 started. It has been a quick leap compared to 2.0 -> 3.0 -> 4.0.
Yeah, I think I misread.

It does indeed feel like there was a long period where, in practice, PCIe 3 was current (especially on Intel), even though PCIe 4 was already virtually finished. Then 5 followed relatively soon after.
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