Darth Shiv
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As a purist I agree it's crap how they sit far behind. From an economics perspective, what percentage of users make use of it? Pretty low... surely < 5% probably less.Gen4 M.2 drives not only "take advantage" of PCI-E 4, they're already pushing the limits. GB's Aorus gets you 5GB/s sequential, and the upcoming Lexar SSD will have an insane 7GB/s. The theoretical maximum for PCI-E 4.0 x4 is 7.88 GB/s...
I don't know what Intel were thinking with this glaring omission.