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PCIe is the ubiquitous engine that pulls a big part of the computing locomotive down the track—it touches nearly every device in your computer. As such, it is the linchpin for the development of many other technologies, such as storage, networking, GPUs, chipsets, and many other devices. Considering its importance, it isn't surprising to find the PCI-SIG with 750 members worldwide. Unfortunately, large organizations tend to move slowly, and PCIe 4.0 is undoubtedly late to market. PCIe 3.0 debuted in 2010 within the normal four-year cadence, but PCIe 4.0 isn't projected to land in significant quantities until the end of 2017—a seven-year gap.
PCI-SIG representatives attributed part of the delay to industry stagnation. The PCIe 3.0 interface was sufficient for storage, networking, graphics cards, and other devices, for the first several years after its introduction. Over the last two years, a sudden wellspring of innovation exposed PCIe 3.0's throughput deficiencies. Artificial intelligence craves increased GPU throughput, storage devices are migrating to the PCIe bus with the NVMe protocol, and as a result, networking suddenly has an insatiable appetite for more bandwidth.
The industry needs PCIe 4.0 to land soon, and PCI-SIG assures us it will ratify the new specification by the end of 2017. The sluggish ratification process hasn't hampered adoption entirely, though. Several IP vendors already offer 16GT/s controllers, and many vendors have already implemented PCIe 4.0 PHYs into their next-generation products. These companies are plowing ahead with the 0.9 revision of the specification, whereas the final ratified spec debuts at 1.0. PCI-SIG says it is accelerating the development and feedback processes, along with simplifying early specification revisions, in a bid to reduce time to market for future specifications. PCI-SIG indicates that PCIe 4.0 will be a short-lived specification because the organization has fast-tracked PCIe 5.0 for final release in 2019.
[...] AMD has slated PCIe 4.0 for 2020. We imagine Intel is also chomping at the bit to deploy PCIe 4.0 3D XPoint and NVMe SSDs, but the company remains silent on its timeline.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 31 2017, @09:17PM (4 children)
It has PCIe 4.0 on release.
The bad part is: You need both processors in order to gain access to all the slots :(
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday August 31 2017, @10:04PM (3 children)
Thanks for the reminder.
So is anyone planning on running Tails on Talos II for the ultimate paranoid experience?
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday August 31 2017, @10:14PM (2 children)
The ultimate paranoid experience calls for running it airgapped and headless.
But if you want to be really sure, you need batteries and an alternator (or a DC supply). Though, given that China make a lot of alternators and batteries, you should consider avoiding power altogether.
There, peace of mind and cost savings...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday August 31 2017, @10:28PM (1 child)
If you want to talk airgapped you might as well not run a computer at all since you could get Stuxnetted by a trained squirrel with a microSD card.
*Ultimate paranoid experience while still connected to the
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday August 31 2017, @10:58PM
If you want to connect to the web safely, run an embedded OS on a Microblaze (Xilinx FPGA soft-core processor).
Running Linux is also possible, but might open up some script attacks.