> They are banking heavily on the trend of turning PCIe into a serial bus of sorts. It was always a serial bus? PCIe 1.0 was just too slow to handle everything

> They are banking heavily on the trend of turning PCIe into a serial bus of sorts. It was always a serial bus? PCIe 1.0 was just too slow to handle everything without 16x systems. In fact, 32x slots/cards existed in the server market to make up for the missing bandwidth.