Intel Prototyping PCIe 4.0 SSDs, but Needs AMD CPUs to Test Them

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Intel is prototyping PCIe 4.0 SSDs, but needs AMD CPUs to test them. Will they buy from AMD or stubbornly use them with PCIe 3.0 only?
An errant tweet has revealed that Intel’s second gen Optane 3D XPoint SSDs are being sampled to developers, with a new flagship feature: PCIe 4.0 support. The only problem? Intel doesn’t have any CPUs that support PCIe 4.0. Maybe AMD can lend them some.