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Deep & Emerging Tech·June 24, 2026·1 min read

AWS pipped AMD and Intel to the first CPU supporting PCIe 6.0, and you can now finally rent it by the hour (but don't expect any miracles)

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Graviton5 with PCIe 6.0 is less about immediate speedups and more about AWS quietly laying track for next-gen accelerators and IO-heavy AI workloads. If you’re building infra with a 2–3 year horizon, assume PCIe 6.0-class bandwidth becomes table stakes and design your storage and networking around that future, not today’s bottlenecks.