HighPoint Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance PCI Express (PCIe ) switching and storage expansion solutions, is proud to announce the launch of HighPoint's External CopprLink PCIe Architecture. Anchored by the PCI-SIG CopprLink standard, this groundbreaking architecture establishes a new benchmark for disaggregated AI, HPC, and professional media workflows, delivering a massive 64 GB/s of native throughput with unprecedented interoperability.

A Vendor-Neutral Foundation for PCIe 5.0 and PCIe 6.0 Technology Interoperability
As AI and data-intensive workloads continue to outpace the thermal and power thresholds of conventional server chassis, the need for a standardized external expansion framework has become mission-critical. HighPoint's new connectivity fabric is built upon the PCI-SIG CopprLink (CDFP) specification (SFF-TA-1032) to facilitate a truly vendor-neutral hardware environment. By adhering to this open industry standard, HighPoint ensures that today's PCIe 5.0 technology investments are fully forward-compatible with the emerging PCIe 6.0 specification, providing a sustainable, long-term ROI for data centers and enterprise IT architects.

HighPoint Technologies, Inc., a global leader in advanced PCIe storage and connectivity solutions, today announced the Rocket 7634D, the industry's first independent PCIe Gen 5 External CDFP Adapter. Engineered to serve as the cornerstone of next-generation external PCIe fabrics, the Rocket 7634D robust external CDFP-CopprLink connectivity compact low-profile form factor, and proven PCIe Gen 5 switching technology deliver the bandwidth, reliability, and interoperability demands of disaggregated computing, AI driven applications and performance hungry HPC and professional media workflows.

Built in full compliance with the PCI-SIG CopprLink specification, the Rocket 7634D functions as a professional-grade Host Interface Card (HIC); enabling direct, non-blocking connections between servers or workstations and external GPUs, accelerator and I/O cards, or NVMe storage enclosures—without the compromises of tunneling or legacy interconnects.

HighPoint Technologies, a leader in high-performance storage solutions, has announced the launch of the Rocket 7638D, a revolutionary PCIe Gen 5 switch adapter engineered to solve the most critical bottleneck in modern AI/ML workflows: data starvation. The adapter's groundbreaking hardware architecture provides a foundational platform for GPU-Direct NVMe storage, enabling NVIDIA GPUs to directly access massive datasets without the performance penalties of CPU bottlenecks. The Rocket 7638D is designed to help AI professionals maximize their return on investment by ensuring their GPUs are always at full utilization, accelerating model training, inference, and data preprocessing to unprecedented speeds.

The Paradigm Shift: From Conventional to Direct
For decades, the path from storage to compute has been a bottleneck. Data has had to travel from an NVMe drive, through the host CPU, and into the GPU's memory—a slow, inefficient process that wastes valuable compute cycles. The Rocket 7638D shatters this conventional model. It is the first 48-lane Gen 5 PCIe switch adapter engineered with a dedicated x16 Gen 5 pathway for both an external GPU and NVMe storage from a single slot. This architecture creates a direct, peer-to-peer data channel that bypasses the host CPU entirely.

PCI-SIG, the organization responsible for the widely adopted PCI Express (PCIe) standard, today announced the release of the CopprLink Internal and External Cable specifications. The CopprLink Cable specifications provide signaling at 32.0 and 64.0 GT/s and leverage well-established industry standard connector form factors maintained by SNIA.

"The CopprLink Cable specifications integrate PCIe cabling seamlessly with the PCIe electrical base specification, providing longer channel reach and topological flexibility," said Al Yanes, PCI-SIG President and Chairperson. "The CopprLink Cables are intended to evolve with the same connector form factors, scale for future PCIe technology generations and meet the demands of emerging applications. The Electrical Work Group has already begun pathfinding work on CopprLink Cables for PCIe 7.0 technology at 128.0 GT/s, showcasing PCI-SIG's commitment to the CopprLink Cable specifications."