PCIe · Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
The standard high-speed bus connecting CPUs, GPUs, NICs and storage inside a server.
Current numbers
~$16–27kused H100 secondary price by form factor (PCIe ~$16–20k; SXM5 ~$22–27k); no reliable age-stratified curve published
64-coreBlueField-4 Arm Neoverse V2 complex (64B transistors, ~6× BF-3 compute); 128 GB LPDDR5; PCIe Gen6
~28 / 14 GB/sPCIe 6.0 x4 enterprise SSD sequential read/write (Micron 9650, first Gen6 in mass production), ~5.5M IOPS; E1.S & E3.S