NEC Demos 16Gb/s Device w/ Triple SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Speeds – Death of USB and PCI Express?

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NEC Corporation (NEC) announced today the development and successful demonstration of LSI technology for next-generation high-speed serial communication interfaces. This new technology allows inter-chip communication that is three times faster than modern communication interface standards, such as USB 3.0 and PCI Express 2.0, without using complicated transmission modes like multilevel transmission.

SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectors

NEC and NECEL’s newly developed high-speed communication interface technology utilizing binary transmission schemes enable data rates of 16 Gb/s, which is approximately three times faster than existing communication interface standards, such as USB 3.0 and PCI Express 2.0. Conventional equalizers correct the distortion of a receiver’s input signal waveform by feeding back received data to the input signal waveform. However, as data rates grow higher, the time allowed for feedback operation becomes shorter, making the correction of distortion difficult.

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