Originally Posted By: mlord
...and the peripherals get larger. And significantly more expensive for the PCIe, optics, and royalties.


That price is being paid now, inserting t-bolt moves some items from one box to another. Adding t-bolt is the big cost.

Eventually cost factors will drive the creation of specialized t-bolt mashups that handle all the functions needed for a type of peripheral.

T-bolt is still copper for now, I suspect that fibers and optics will benefit greatly from cost reductions if they wind up as mass (100 millions) produced components.
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