{"id":121711,"date":"2017-10-29T10:30:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T08:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=121711"},"modified":"2017-10-27T14:53:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T12:53:59","slug":"pcie-4-0-specification-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/121711-pcie-4-0-specification-released","title":{"rendered":"PCIe 4.0 specification released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PCI-SIG has released the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pcisig.com\/specifications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">specifications for PCIe 4.0<\/a><\/strong>, promising double the maximum data transfer rate of PCIe 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>PCI-SIG is an organisation which governs the specifications of the PCIe protocol, and consists of 750 members.<\/p>\n<p>The PCIe 4.0 specification was announced in June, and has now been published.<\/p>\n<p>PCIe 4.0\u2019s major improvement over the previous specification is a maximum data rate of 16GT\/s, as opposed to PCIe 3.0\u2019s 8GT\/s.<\/p>\n<p>Additional enhancements delivered by PCIe 4.0 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduced latency.<\/li>\n<li>Lane margining.<\/li>\n<li>Improved scalability.<\/li>\n<li>Improved I\/O virtualisation and platform integration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PCI-SIG said it plans to release the PCIe 5.0 specification in Q2 2019, which is expected to double transfer speeds yet again.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/209266-what-you-need-to-know-before-you-buy-an-ssd.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">What you need to know before you buy an SSD<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCI-SIG has released the\u00a0specifications for PCIe 4.0, promising double the maximum data transfer rate of PCIe 3.0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":84543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25275,19625],"class_list":["post-121711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-pci-sig","tag-pcie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}