IDT Offers Broadest Family of Low Power PCI Express Switches Optimized for High Performance I/O Connectivity

IDT Offers Broadest Family of Low Power PCI Express Switches Optimized for High Performance I/O Connectivity

IDT™ announced the industry's broadest range of PCI Express® (PCIe®) switches optimized to solve system I/O connectivity challenges. Now offering 10 PCIe switches, the IDT PRECISE™ family offers the lowest power consuming devices available in the market today and reduces the overall total cost of ownership by significantly minimizing system thermal management requirements.

Industry’s First Twelve Port Switch;  Eight New Devices for Applications Ranging from Servers to Consumer Products

The new switches are optimized to address the I/O connectivity challenges faced by systems ranging from high end servers, storage and communications equipment to industrial and consumer applications. Utilizing a highly innovative architecture, the switches maximize data throughput performance to achieve not only the lowest power consumption per lane, but also the highest performance per watt, of any PCIe switch currently available today.

The new devices are PCI Express 1.1 compliant and deploy the industry’s broadest range of lane/port configurations, providing customers with a wide range of system design choices.
The PRECISE family delivers switching bandwidth of 24 gigabytes per second (GBps) for the 48-lane/12-port switch. At the low-end, the 8-lane/5-port switch delivers 4 GBps throughput.
Key design decisions, such as support for up to 2048-byte payloads, large internal buffers and a significant number of flow control credits enable these switches to offer maximum throughput.