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Originally Posted by chucker
One thing that hasn’t been mentioned in this particular thread, I think: Intel, for… reasons… stuck with PCIe 3.0 for a long time, and Thunderbolt 3 and 4 derive from that. Intel is now on PCIe 5.0. Simply upgrading to that would quadruple Thunderbolt bandwidth to 160 Gb/s (20 GiB/s gross, so effectively maybe something like 15). That’s quite interesting for high-end SSD scenarios.
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In that case, do we need to care when Intel supports it? Isn't it up to Apple Silicon to support it now, or do we need Intel to move first?
I could be wrong, but it was my understanding Apple just went to PCIe 4.0 recently, so 5.0 is a ways off.
If they could move to PCIe 5.0 and USB 4 [80] with the new Mac Pro and announced availability early in 2023, that would be amazing.
But I'm thinking it will be a Yikes/Sawtooth repeat where the first model is an M2 Extreme, and the next [M3] upgrade blows it out of the water.