Switch chip boosts PCI Express density

The PLX PEX 8548 is the industry's only 48-lane, nine-port PCIe switching device.

PLX Technology has introduced the PLX PEX 8548, the industry's only 48-lane, nine-port PCIe switching device.

The PEX 8548 boasts the industry's highest lane-count, lowest latency (under 110ns) of any high-density switch, true peer-to-peer support (available in no other vendors' switches), and nine highly configurable ports (up to x16 wide) with a programmable upstream port and cross-link capability enabling dual-host configurations.

This array of features, unique to PLX, makes the PEX 8548 an i