Credo Technology’s Toucan PCIe Retimer Achieves PCI‑SIG Compliance

Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd, innovator in providing connectivity at scale through fast, reliable, and energy-efficient system solutions, announced that its PCIe 6.0 technology-capable Toucan PCIe retimer has earned PCI-SIG compliance at 32.0GT/s.Key points:

Credo’s production-ready 7nm PCIe 6.0 technology-capable Toucan PCIe retimer has been validated as PCI-SIG compliant at PCIe 5.0 technology speeds, ensuring interoperability, signal integrity, and low-power performance across industry-standard platforms
This validation enables customers to deploy Toucan confidently in PCIe 6.0 technology and previous-gen systems, avoiding compatibility and debugging challenges common with legacy-only solutions while preparing for future PCIe technology transitions
The company’s PCIe retimer solutions enable signal integrity to be restored across longer distances at high performance, providing high-speed connectivity and reliability for AI rack-scale, disaggregated and multi-rack architectures

Purpose-Built for Next-Gen Platforms
Toucan retimers address integration challenges in AI, HPC, and accelerated compute environments with:

PCI-SIG-compatible PCIe 5.0 technology interoperability
Low-power design for dense accelerator platforms
Advanced debug and diagnostics through PILOT tool
Architecture aligned with PCIe 7.0 technology roadmaps

“As AI workloads continue to scale, PCIe retimers are playing a critical role in building reliable, low-power, high-performance interconnects,” said Vishal Shah, VP, product, Credo. “Credo’s PCIe 6.0 technology-capable Toucan retimer provides a standards-compliant, low-power solution that simplifies integration today while enabling a smooth transition to future PCIe specification generations.”

“We recognize Credo for achieving PCI‑SIG compliance for its Toucan retimers,” said Al Yanes, president and chairperson, PCI-SIG. “Companies such as Credo that participate in PCIe specification compliance testing help ensure continued advancement of high-speed interconnects in the AI-era.”

Key Customer Benefits:

Proven PCI-SIG compliance
High performance with reliable operation across high-loss channels
Deep diagnostics for faster bring-up and streamlined qualification using PILOT software
Simplified and low-risk migration to future PCIe technology generations

Ideal for hyperscaler and AI deployments, Toucan retimers combine performance, power efficiency, compliance, and diagnostics to accelerate platform stability and roadmap alignment.