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  • mode_13h - Friday, March 22, 2019 - link

    The 7 nm Radeon Instinct series cards supposedly support PCIe 4.0, already.
  • Santoval - Saturday, March 23, 2019 - link

    "Pricing of the OSS 5 Slot Gen 4 Backplane is unknown, but typically such devices are rather expensive."
    And yet it looks like a prototype or proof-of-concept design, very strange.. Or perhaps it is, since that might not be the final commercial version.
  • jordanclock - Monday, March 25, 2019 - link

    What makes you think that? Looks finished to me. Server stuff tends to be pretty spartan in appearance.
  • edzieba - Monday, March 25, 2019 - link

    It does seem weird that SFF-8644 is still the "PCIE but over a cable" connector of choice when OCuLink is in the wild already.
  • jordanclock - Monday, March 25, 2019 - link

    Pretty sure it's because OCuLink 2 only goes to PCIe 3.0 x8. That's 1/4 the bandwidth on the upstream connector alone.

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