Comment by neocron
6 hours ago
Might as well be replaced by optical connectors next years, but who knows in advance. Currently there is no competition
6 hours ago
Might as well be replaced by optical connectors next years, but who knows in advance. Currently there is no competition
Hmm. What's the current maths on distance vs edge rate vs transceiver latency vs power consumption on when that would be a benefit? Not to mention how much of a pain it is to have good optical connectors.
I wouldn't expect that to be mainstream until after optical networking becomes more common, and for consumer hardware that's very rare (apart from their modem).
even though it would be optical, it still is using PCIe protocols in the background...
PCIe is still using PCI protocol just over serdes
How could you possibly know exactly what protocol they'd be using for the potential future optical PCIe connection? Your guess is as good as anyone's, no?
Probably because optical PCI-E is an old thing by now.
In fact, "zero~th generation" of thunderbolt used optical link, too. Also both thunderbolt and DisplayPort reuse a lot of common elements from PCI-E