Taipei, Sunday, October 19, 2014 22:13 (GMT+8)
partly cloudy
Taipei
25°C
PCI-SIG delivers PCI Express 2.0 specification
Press release, January 16; Vyacheslav Sobolev, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 16 January 2007]

The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) that owns and manages PCI specifications, has announced the availability of the PCI Express Base 2.0 specification. After a 60-day review of revision 0.9 of the specification in late 2006, members of the PCI-SIG finalized and released PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0, which doubles the interconnect bit rate from 2.5GT/s (gigatransfers per second) to 5GT/s to support high-bandwidth applications.

In addition to the faster signaling rate, PCI-SIG working groups also added several new protocol layer improvements to the PCIe Base 2.0 specification, such as dynamic link speed management (allows developers to control the speed at which the link is operating), link bandwidth notification (alerts platform software, including operating system and device drivers, of changes in link speed and width), capability structure expansion (increases control registers to better manage devices, slots and the interconnect), completion timeout control (allows developers to define a required disable mechanism for transaction timeouts), function-level reset (provides an optional mechanism to reset functions within a multi-function device) and power limit redefinition (enables slot power limit values to accommodate devices that consume higher power).

The PCIe Base 2.0 specification is available for download at the PCI-SIG website.

MSI X99S GAMING 9 AC
DIGITIMES Marketing Services
Greater China touch panel shipment forecast through 2015
  • 2014 global high brightness LED market, trends and shipment forecast

    For the global LED lighting market, the market size will reach US$25.82 billion in 2014 or a market penetration rate of 23.4%. This is attributable to exponential shipment growth for light bulbs, tubes, and directional lamps.

  • Greater China touch panel shipment forecast through 2015

    This Special Report provides forecasts through 2015 for Greater China touch panel shipments with breakdowns based on technology (glass, film, resistive), application (smartphone, NB and tablet) and by firm.

  • 2014 global tablet demand forecast

    This report analyzes the main players, their strategies and shipments forecasts for 2014, as well as other factors contributing to either growth or decline in various segments within the tablet market, with a particular focus on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft, along with whitebox vendors.