IT's Been Three Years, So It's Time For Another PCI-Express Speed Bump
The Next Platform, Thursday, June 12th, 2025
PCI-SIG, the organization that oversees the roadmap for the critical PCI-Express peripheral attachment specification, is continuing to keep to its three-year drumbeat for releasing the next iteration of the interconnect spec and already has its sights on the one after that, expected to be released in 2028 and appear in devices in 2030 or so.
The group this week said that the PCI-Express 7.0 spec has been finalized and sent out to members, with it apparently already starting to appear in some proofs-of-concept (POCs) and likely to see wider adoption in devices and systems before the 8.0 spec is realized. In addition, it takes two to three years for the spec to be tested and implemented into the myriad systems that use the interconnect, including servers, desktops and laptops, storage systems, GPUs, and network cards.
And that three-year schedule isn't likely to change. Getting to a new spec in a three-year timespan is challenging enough, according to PCI-SIG president Al Yanes.