PCI-Express 3.0 could be a surprise to Intel Ivy Bridge by 2012

Components of PC WhisKiTo on March 31, 2011 | 21: 31 To vote this post connect with Facebook Connect

ivy Bridge, the family of Intel microprocessors that will happen to the current Intel Core 2nd Gen. (or Sandy Bridge), will bring an evolution towards the 22 nanometer manufacturing process as the main, but could also have some surprise: PCI-Express 3.0.

PCIe has become a few years in the standard of connection of graphics cards with the motherboard at the household level, i.e. on the computers of our homes. Currently dominates the PCI-E 2.0 version. The main improvements that would mean the third generation would double bandwidth on the basis of 16 links (16 x), with what the GPU could communicate much faster than with other components of the computer.

Obviously, as well as the improvement provided by PCI-Express 3.0 also will have to evolve both graphics cards such as motherboards, more specifically their chipsets. The Ivy Bridge chipset will be the first to support PCI-E 3.0, and supposedly motherboards for these new chips would also be the first to use their slots (we will see if some or all of them).

With all this the launch of Ivy Bridge could bring quite a few news about: 22 nanometers, new base and new chipsets, new socket (it has not yet been confirmed, but we all know Intel), PCI-Express 3.0 and with it new graphics cards. When? By 2012, certainly CES 2012.

In Engadget | Ivy bridge.
Vía | TechReport.
Image | Flickr Jaroslaw Kulik.

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