PCI-SIG is the organization that sets the PCI Express standard and it has now presented the coming specification of the popular data interface. PCI Express 2.0 was shown behind closed doors during a PCIe seminar in Utah on February 26 and according to The Inquirer, Intel and NVIDIA supplied the hardware. A yet not named chipset from Intel paired with a secret graphics circuit from NVIDIA was used during the demonstration and perhaps offered a hint of Intel’s next generation chipsets that will arrive during the third quarter. AMD/ATI is said to not to have any PCIe 2.0 capable prototypes yet, but the question is how necessary the new interface is right now. A 16 channel port with 80Gbps bandwidth sounds a bit overkill for most things.
