External PCIe Spec Completed

Friday 09th February 2007, 12:12:00 PM, written by Tim

PCI-SIG announced yesterday that the PCI Express External Cabling Specification had been completed. The spec is compatible with PCIe 1.1 and will be available in link widths up to 16x. However, it is not compatible with the recently-completed PCIe 2.0 spec (PDF).

Considering the existence of NVIDIA's Quadro Plex, ASUS' external video card for notebooks, and the ever-increasing power and heat requirements of GPUs, it seems like this might be the impetus required for the introduction of external consumer-grade graphics cards.

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