By moving its PCI Express products to 40nm processes, PLX is staying in lockstep with the leading-edge microprocessors coming from Intel and the most powerful graphics processing units recently introduced by AMD’s ATI business, said Rob Lineback, senior market research analyst at IC Insights, Inc. Additionally, this development should enable PLX’s PCI Express technology to complement soon-to-be-announced 40nm GPUs from Nvidia in performance and power efficiency.
PLX® chose TSMC as the foundry for its 40nm silicon development because of its technology leadership in 40nm geometry skills and a common vision of delivering timely product excellence, said Mike Grubisich, PLX vice president of operations. We expect to be first to market by delivering 40nm PCI Express Gen 3 switch samples to key customers and consequently retaining and increasing our commanding market lead.