Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0 (www.phoronix.com)

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While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surface for PCI Express 7.0.

The PCI-SIG officially released the PCIe 7.0 specification i nmid-2025. PCI Express 7.0 doubles the raw data rate to 128 GT/s to allow for 512GB/s bi-directional communication in a PCIe 7.0 x16 configuration. PCIe 7.0 retains backwards compatibility with prior PCIe revisions, offers power efficiency improvements, and other enhancements.

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[-] Scoopta@programming.dev 14 points 5 days ago

Me: we're on PCIe 7 now????

this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026

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