The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) that owns and manages PCI specifications, has announced the availability of the PCI Express Base 2.0 specification. After a 60-day review of revision 0.9 of the specification in late 2006, members of the PCI-SIG finalized and released PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0, which doubles the interconnect bit rate from 2.5GT/s (gigatransfers per second) to 5GT/s to support high-bandwidth applications.

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