The purpose of 086349-504 continues to be to enable OEMs to reap the benefits of a large ecosystem and the reputation of PICMG and its standard specifications, and as such, there is a particular emphasis on the ease with which users can complete their system migrations. The extensive experience gained when migrating from ETX to COM Express should serve as a reference.

086349-504 For these reasons, there will be two new next-generation performance levels above the COM Express Type7 and Type6 standard specifications. One category is aimed at edge server technologies that require more communication interfaces than powerful integrated graphics and multiple cores for workload consolidation.

The 086349-504 extends the existing high-end embedded computer standard with new performance options not available with COM Express, including graphics cards, USB 3.2 (20 Gbit/s), USB 4.0 (40 Gbit/s), Gen 4 and 5 PCIe with x2/x4 port configurations and retiming, Ethernet with 100/ 200 Gb/s, and NICs. 200 Gb/s Ethernet, NVMe and other options.