Intel Skylake Chipsets May Receive a Significant PCIe Upgrade

Leaked slide shows next generation chipsets with more PCIe lanes

It’s been several years since we’ve seen a meaningful upgrade to PCI Express in Intel’s chipsets. For the most part, budget on up to high-end motherboards have been limited to eight lanes at Gen2 speeds, though it appears that’s going to change once Skylake arrives. A leaked slide posted to a Chinese-language website indicates that Intel’s forthcoming 100 Series chipset for Skylake will ditch PCIe’s eight …read more

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