Chipmaker AMD is set to unveil a new array of X3D MCM processors in its third-generation EPYC Milan CPU server stack, which would be unprecedented in its roadmap.
It is interesting about the PCIe 5.0 side of things for the desktop as they spearheaded PCIe 4.0 to the desktop and although I see no reason to double the bandwidth yet again just for the desktop. It will be a monkey see monkey marketing issue where people will see Intel and go “big numbah betterer” but that s just the way of the game I suppose. Wonder how power hungry PCIe 5.0 is going to be?
Or even if anyone has an idea how much if any, for example, of the X570 s extra power requirements is because of PCIe 4.0?
Bigger number headlines are still around: last week or so there was headlines about Seagate s Mach.2 HDDs with transfer rates of over 500MB/s going on about as being as fast as SSDs as if sequential transfer was important. But then burst and sequential speeds have been getting the headlines since SATA3/2/1 UDMA133/66/33 and so on.
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