PCIe 8.0 is really fast, but it might require a new connector
… PCI-SIG also released an Optical Aware Retimer ECN for PCIe 6.0 and 7.0 designs in mid-2025, with optical updates explicitly planned for 8.0, All of these fancy new connectors and additions to the standard that I've mentioned are already found in the enterprise world: data center hardware already h… …