AIC and Parade Jointly Announced PCIe Gen 4 Server Appliance

AIC Inc. and Parade Technologies Ltd. will align on PCIe Gen 4 retimer technologies to enable the launch of a PCIe Gen 4 appliance for composable GPU, AI, HPC workloads.

AIC’s server hardware, supporting multiple PCIe Gen 4 slots in a single rackmount chassis, is a flexible and compact extension box accommodating accelerators such as GPUs, NIC, FPGA and NVMe drives. Utilizing Parade’s PCIe Gen 4 retimer chip, AIC’s PCIe Gen 4 appliance provides stable data transport of the doubled data rate of PCIe Gen 4 at 16Gb/s, compared to 8Gb/s of PCIe Gen 3.

Parade is a provider in high-speed data signal integrity products and brings PCIe Gen 4 retimers into production. They are for enterprise systems and workstation applications such as AIC’s server hardware.

“AIC is committed to be an early adopter of new technologies and is honored to work with Parade to launch this first-to-market PCIe Gen 4 appliance,” said Michael Liang, CEO, AIC. “We see great potential for this appliance as it directly addresses the challenging signal integrity issues for applications that are based on the new PCIe Gen 4 Standard, and it provides a robust infrastructure for future applications.“

“Parade is pleased to team up with AIC who has a high degree of system-level expertise to complement our skill set on the components side,” said Mr. Jimmy Chiu, EVP, marketing, Parade. “This partnership provides a gateway for early entry into the PCIe Gen 4 market for both companies, which benefits both of us.“

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