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There will be many demos at PCI-SIG 2015 this week declaring readiness for PCIe 4.0. Synopsys is one of them and will be showing PCIe 4.0 controllers, PHYs and verification IP. Of course, it’s great that the industry ecosystem is gearing up to support PCIe 4.0, but the specification is still under development and we have a way to go before PCIe 4.0 is finalized.

The PCIe 4.0 specification was announced on November 29^th, 2011 and we are still only at the 0.5 revision of the specification. Of course, I have customers that are getting impatient on how long it is taking for the specification to move forward and I have customers that are happy with PCIe at 5.0GT/s. For those pushing the boundaries of speed into a new frontier using the latest, smallest geometries – It’s going to be fun and we look forward to our continued partnership!

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