
Add-in card manufacturer HighPoint has unveiled the world's first PCIe Gen 5 x16 NVMe add-in card, which can house up to eight PCIe Gen 5 SSDs at full speed. The card, priced at $1,999.00, can operate at up to 56 GB/s and is compatible with up to 2PB of NVMe drives.
The new add-in card, the Rocket 7608A PCIe Gen 5 x16, features eight Gen 5 2280 compatible M.2 slots capable of operating a four-lane Gen 5 NVMe SSD at full speed. The card utilizes Broadcom's PEX89048 switch to provide 48 lanes of internal Gen 5 bandwidth, with 16 lanes dedicated to the host machine (the physical x16 slot) and the rest to the eight M.2 slots. The 7608A's dimensions resemble a single-slot graphics card, featuring a single-slot full-height form factor with a massive amount of width to accommodate all eight SSDs.