On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:08 AM, Michael Watterson <mike@radioway.org> wrote=
:
> On 02/03/2011 18:41, Joe Koberg wrote:
>> I suspect the best choice of action would be to design your peripheral
>> with a PCI-Express interface. =A0 I suspect we'll be seeing
>> Thunderbolt-to-PCIE bridges, since the non-display portion of
>> Thunderbolt is simply a muxed PCI-Express channel.
>>
> PCIe is too slow

(depends on what you are looking at)
How slow is slow ?

Expresscard can do 480Mbits/s in USB2 mode
while in PCIe 1.0 mode it can do 2.5Gbits/s x1 lane

Expresscard2 can do 5.0Gbits/s in USB3 mode
while in PCIe 2.0 mode it can do 5.0 Gbits/s x1 lane

PCIe 3.0 mode can do about 8.0 Gbits/s x1 lane

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