Intel is prototyping PCIe 4.0 SSDs, but needs AMD CPUs to test them

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Intel is prototyping PCIe 4.0 SSDs, but needs AMD CPUs to test them
January 5, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/83402-intel-prototyping-pcie-40-ssds-but-needs-amd.html

Facepalm: An errant tweet has revealed that Intel’s second generation Optane 3D XPoint SSDs are being sampled to developers, with a new flagship feature: PCIe 4.0 support. The only problem? Intel doesn’t have any CPUs that support PCIe 4.0. Maybe AMD can lend them some.

AMD became the first to support PCIe 4.0 with third-generation Ryzen.
Intel’s CPU department might not have seen that as a big deal but apparently, their storage division does.
Intel’s technical marketing performance engineer Frank Ober tweeted that Intel is willing to send out PCIe 4.0 SSDs to developers. But the developers will need PCIe 4.0 CPUs to take full advantage of them.

@glcst would you like to test on gen2 pcie 4 capable optane ssd to see your code's potential? Then I can set that up for you. Send me a private email when you are ready... @axboe has his own...
— Frank Ober (@fxober) December 24, 2019
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