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    News - PCI-SIG releases PCI Express 3.0

    New spec doubles bandwidth while maintaining backward compatibility.
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    Re: News - PCI-SIG releases PCI Express 3.0

    There's also a new 128b/130b encoding scheme that's about 25 per cent more efficient than the 8b/10b encoding used in the older specifications.
    Interesting. Have used 8b/10b encoded serial links many times before. Not heard of 128b/130b before. Let's hope my electronic engineer has.

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