Unlike those that many users initially thought, the Artificial intelligence It is not a passing fad. From the launch of Chatgpt At the end of 2022, AI has evolved at a dizzying pace and is currently capable of doing anything that does not go through our heads, although there is still a long way to go in the field of artificial intelligence.
To continue evolving at a good pace, it needs a lot of data (data that are generally obtained without the consent of the authors, a topic that gives a lot and that we are not going to deal with in this article) and that they transfer as quickly as possible to reduce to be able to analyze more data in less time.
The organization in charge of the development of PCIE standards is currently working on PCIE 6.0 and PCIE 7.0 to improve the Data transfer speed So there are still a few years for this technology to reach the market and be available to all users, once it has become a standard in data centers, where this type of improvements arrive first, it is where it really can be taken advantage of.
Reading speeds of up to 27 GB/s
A few months ago, the Micron manufacturer announced its first SSD compatible with pcie 6 ensuring that he offered a bandwidth far away from what we know so far. To demonstrate what PCIE is capable of being associated with Astera Labs to demonstrate the performance that they are able to achieve these new high performance SSD units.
During the past Desigcon 2025, Micron and Astera Labs have shown, publicly what is the result of combining a PCIE 6.0 SSD Unit Manufactured by Micron to the P-Series Scorpio plate with PCI 27 GB/s.
To perform the test the technology was used NVIDIA MAGNUM IO GPUDUARECT STORAGE next to one GPU H100two micron pcie 6x e3.s units and an unspecified CPU. The P-Series Scorpio Plate is the first in the world specifically designed for devices compatible with PCIE 6.0, it is able to work with 64 PCIE 6.xy lanes is equally efficient managing graphics card data such as processors as well as SSDS.
All this is very good, but, as usual, the heat that is generated during its operation is, currently, the main obstacle they face. In the data centers, dissipate the operation of the servers has never been a problem and where passive thermal dissipators, fans in even liquid cooling systems that have nothing to do with those we can find in the domestic market.
According to both Micron and Astera Labs, this technology is already ready to begin its implementation in data centers, however, it still has a long way to go to reach the domestic market. First, the motherboard compatible with PCIE 6.0 will have to arrive and then the first components, so, 2 or 3 years will still pass in the best case to enjoy it.
