Standards group delays new bus specification

04.08.2009

The specification is also backward-compatible, Yanes said. For example, a PCIe 3.0 card can be plugged into a PCIe 2.0 system, or vice versa.

Some of the biggest IT companies have thrown their support behind older and new PCIe specifications. Today the SIG has more than 840 companies on board, including Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Nvidia, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM and Sun.