The Gen5 Reality Check For PCIe Gen3, signal integrity was manageable. With the onset of PCIe Gen4, it became a challenge. And now, in the era of PCIe Gen5 , it is a battle against physics. When you are moving data at 32GT/s , the margin for error effectively disappears. For IT professionals designing disaggregated AI clusters, the choice between "Passive" and "Active" cabling is the difference between a high-performance fabric and a system plagued by "silent" performance deg