Alphawave Semi, a company that designs custom chips and licenses the technology to small businesses, said it is testing the PCIe 6.0 standard in cooperation with Keysight Technologies, a US company that makes testing equipment, software and electronic measuring devices.
The goal of this collaboration is to use Keysite test equipment to test compatibility between PCIe 6.0 controllers and Alphawave chips to ensure data transfer rates of up to 64 Gbps. To meet the needs of high-performance applications such as artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, higher data transfer rates are needed.
The experiment not only proved that the data transfer rate reached 64 Gbps, but also proved that the AlphaWave chip also supports the CXL 2.0 protocol, which is the first of its kind in the industry. It also fully supports Automatic Error Correction (FEC), FLIT mode and other features that come with PCIe 6.0.
This achievement confirms that Alphawave is ready to produce chipsets compatible with the PCIe 6.0 standard, joining a long list of companies preparing to launch the first products based on the PCIe 6.0 standard. It will be launched this year. This achievement is an important result of the development of the PCIe 6.0 standard, which provides higher data transfer rates than previous PCIe standards.
“Testing and benchmarking are critical aspects of ensuring interoperability, allowing Alphawave to bring its products to market more quickly,” said Letizia Giuliano, Vice President of Product Marketing at Alphawave. “We are thrilled to be working with Keycite to validate the industry-leading PCIe 6.0 standard. Reaching this milestone gives us confidence in our ability to deliver the right connectivity solutions to optimize data and AI processing across high-performance IT infrastructure.”