Broadcom announces PCI Express Gen5/Gen6 retimers

Broadcom announced the availability of the world’s first 5nm PCIe Gen 5.0/CXL2.0 and PCIe Gen 6.0/CXL3.1 retimers. Broadcom retimers, in combination with its PEX series switches, constitute the industry’s first end-to-end PCIe portfolio and provide benefits including extended reach, lower power dissipation, simplified interop, and end-to-end management. As the demands on AI servers continue to increase, cloud and enterprise data center providers require higher bandwidth, lower latency, lower power, and an open standard-based fabric to interconnect compute, accelerators, networking and storage devices. Broadcom’s investment and deployment scale, along with deep SerDes, protocol and software expertise, are the foundation for industry-leading PCIe switches and retimers.