PCIe 6.0 for PCs Won't Arrive Until 2030 — AMD and Intel Are in No Hurry to Implement

Silicon Motion CEO Wallace K. Kuo said that PCIe 6.0 x4 SSDs Won't Be Released Until 2030, as neither AMD nor Intel has shown interest in the technology. According to him, PC makers are not even discussing the possibility of switching to the new standard, despite its potential - PCIe 6.0 bandwidth reaches 32 Gbps on the line.

The transition to PCIe 6.0 is complicated by high costs, difficulties with routing and lack of ready-made solutions for retiming in the consumer segment. At 64 GT/s, the permissible length of copper tracks is reduced to 3,4 inches, which causes serious limitations in the design of ATX boards and vertical GPU-fasteners, popular among enthusiasts. So far, server solutions (for example, with retimers) are too expensive for the PC market.

In this way, PCIe 5.0 x4 SSDs will remain the most powerful consumer solution in the next five years. Even though the corporate segment is actively switching to PCIe 6.0, mass adoption in desktops and laptops will only happen in the next decade. Kuo is confident: “You won’t see PCIe 6.0 in consumer PCs until 2030.”