I would love to get more information on the cost implications of this generational doubling. Are we going to get this “for free”, or does it come with, say, twi

I would love to get more information on the cost implications of this generational doubling. Are we going to get this “for free”, or does it come with, say, twice the power usage, or a requirement for tighter tolerances on physical components that are thus going to be more expensive to manufacture? We should pay more attention to the distinction between technologies which are a fundamental advancement, and technologies which are just a way to spend more resources. Intel have offered us many great examples of the latter: CPUs which are faster, but at great power and cooling cost. Or, to pick another industry, supercars with incredible acceleration and top speed, but with billionaire-only price tags. I don’t think those are really advanced cars. The true advancements lie in figuring out how to do more with less (like we saw with Apple Silicon), not more with more. I hope this is all irrelevant to PCIe 7.0 and it does in fact raise the baseline for everyone, but we can no longer take this for granted in this industry.