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24th December 2003 - Offering significant changes over
PCI, PCI Express should be universally adopted among
notebook and desktop PCs as well as workstations and
servers, reports In-Stat/MDR. The high-tech market research
firm expects that the increased performance, improved
latency, and Quality-of-Service guarantees for data
delivery in real time presented by the new architecture
should lead to rapid adoption, with the first PCI Express
chipsets hitting the market in volume in Quarter 2 2004.
PCI Express represents a second attempt to establish
a universal Input/Output (I/O) architecture for PCs,
servers, and workstations. The first attempt, PCI, is
still the primary architecture for the vast majority
of machines on the market. However, the need for increased
speed in servers, as well as for graphics in higher-end
machines, led to PCI offshoots, PCI-X and Accelerated
Graphics Port (AGP) respectively, which fragmented the
PCI market. Leading PC vendors all have PCI Express
on their roadmaps, and its adoption in new PCs beginning
in 2004 is certain.
In-Stat/MDR has also found that:
- For similar PC types, consumer segments will adopt
PCI Express before corporate segments because of the
lack of requirements for stable platforms, consistent
configurations, or Information Technology (IT) qualification
in the consumer segment
- Desktop PCs will adopt PCI Express before notebooks
due to shorter design cycles.
- Intel is expected to be among the first to market
with their PCI Express chipsets in the second and
third quarters of 2004. NVIDIA, VIA and SiS are expected
to release chipsets within one quarter of Intel’s
release date.
This Market Alert is drawn from the In-Stat/MDR report,
"PCI
Express in the PC: A Bigger Pipe for Desktops &
Notebooks", which covers the penetration of
PCI Express into the market for notebook and desktop
PCs only (it does not cover workstations, servers or
backplanes). The report includes quarterly percentage
forecasts for PCI Express penetration into four PC categories
through the fourth quarter of 2006: consumer desktop,
consumer notebook, corporate desktop, and corporate
notebook. It also includes annual shipment forecasts
through 2007 for consumer and corporate desktops, and
total notebook markets, along with PCI Express penetration
into each of those markets. Brief profiles of leading
chipset manufacturers are also included.
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