Amphenol ICC’s 1.00mm pitch, vertical card edge connectors enable PCI Express® (PCIe®) signalling from 2.5Gb/s (Gen 1) and 5Gb/s (Gen 2) up to 8Gb/s (Gen 3) per differential signal pair. A modular design of these connectors allow standard pin counts like 36, 64, 98, 164 and 280.

The basic bandwidth (x1) version supports a single PCI Express® lane and is typically used for I/O cards in desktop PCs. The x4 and x8 connectors provide 64 and 98 contacts respectively for server I/O. The high bandwidth versions (x16 lanes and higher) are used for higher bandwidth applications like graphics cards in PCs or riser cards in servers.