Dear PCI-SIG members or fans, PCI Express® M.2 Specification Revision 1.0 is available.

If unfamiliar, Connectikpeople recalls that, the organization responsible for the widely adopted PCI Express^® (PCIe^®) industry-standard input/output (I/O) technology, has released the PCIe M.2 Specification Revision 1.0 to its members.

Connectikpeople observes that the latest M.2 architecture aims to:

·        increase design flexibility to support high-end performance ,

·        Enhanced data rates for power-constrained platforms,

·        Enable the higher integration of functions onto a single form factor module solution,

·        Offer tunable I/O technology, allowing developers to create the optimal balance of power and performance in their platform implementations.

We can also observe that as a natural progression from PCIe^® Mini Card and PCIe^® Half Mini Card, the smaller M.2 form factor is designed to meet future market requirements for applications in thin mobile platforms, such as tablets, portable gaming devices, smartphones and devices requiring SSDs. Its extensible design provides scalability for multiple technologies and host interfaces, including Wi-Fi^®,

Bluetooth^®, SSD and WWAN.

Members can download the PCIe M.2 specification at www.pcisig.com.

Note: PCI-SIG members can participate in the review of all PCI specifications before they are released to the industry. PCI-SIG members develop and maintain PCIe specifications, including the PCIe 4.0 specification, and are actively involved in defining compliance criteria and other technical enabling collateral.

As an additional and extremely valuable benefit of PCI-SIG membership, members are given the right to receive patent licenses from any other member of the organization with necessary claims of patent embodied within the specifications. These licenses may be limited in scope to an implementation of a particular specification, but must be granted to all members on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms.  www.pcisig.com/membership.

About PCI-SIG

PCI-SIG is the consortium that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry standards. The organization defines industry standard I/O (input/output) specifications consistent with the needs of its members. Currently, PCI-SIG is comprised of nearly 800 industry-leading member companies.