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I wish Oculinm wasn't quite so boutique. GPD Win 4 handheld and Minisforum UM780 have a port but generally consumer gear lacks it.

TB is reasonably close enough, but Oculink I think should hypothetically be cheaper, since can be a physical link rather than needing fancy USB4 transceivers.

I wonder how radical a departure CopprLink is going to be from Oculink, in terms of form factor. Supporting PCIe 6.0 seems like a mighty task!

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If that's actually true is just a Rebranding of the OCuLink branding where the Cu in OCuLink there stands for copper! And there are now 2 different makers of gaming Handhelds supporting OCulink ports natively and one Mini PC maker that's got a nice combo-use M.2 port that supports M.2 devices or an OEM supplied custom M.2 to OCuLink adapter that turns that M.2 into a OCuLink port that sits nicely flush with the Mini desktop's case there as if that was a builtin OCuLink Port!

And PCIe 6.0 is just PCIe 5.0's clock rates that uses PAM4 encoding instead of NRZ encoding. So PCIe 6.0 with PAM4 encoding and more bits encoded per clock cycle.

And ETA Prime's YouTube channel is featuring that Mini desktop PC in today's Video(11-14-2023)

And CopprLink is terrible Branding really there as OCuLink is just fine and needs no name change!

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