OCP NIC in 2023: 800G, PCIe Gen6 & Test Integration

Presented by Damien Chong (Meta) | Hemal Shah (Broadcom) | Jason Rock (Dell)
OCP NIC 3.0 has been wildly successful in ecosystem adoption since its debut in 2018. Since then, we have been bumping up its max data transfer speeds to 800Gbps, supporting latest PCIe Gen6, increased cooling with Tall Small Form Factor (TSFF) and supporting variety of test fixture to complete the ecosystem needs. Its advanced management features, compatibility, and scalability make it an ideal choice for modern data centers & enterprise striving to meet the ever-increasing demands of data-intensive applications.

[@TrungLe-wu4mx]

So excited for gen 6!!!!!!

[@whyjay9959]

Hi, I've been skimming a spec document and there's something I couldn't figure out. Power delivery seems to depend on the connector's size- But is it tied to bandwidth? That is, could you give the full 160W to a card when both it and the slot have only, say, x8 PCIe lanes?
Really cool to see PCIe slots that can directly take one or two cards, seems like it could add a lot of flexibility. Maybe it'll even be brought to desktops.