Interesting to compare the clean sweep of UAL with UEC. Both build on the same ethernet PHY but UAL script the protocol on top down to an admirable minimum. However, UEC with its thicker legacy stack can lean on existing switches to get launched. So which is it? Are people going to buy into a cleaner stack or are they going to choose the old mess with new shortcuts in order to do risk management.
Great post! Got me wondering… have there been counter examples? Where there is a new standard that didn’t really end up in products eventually? This could be a significant risk for start ups failing because nobody wants to acquire them.
Interesting to compare the clean sweep of UAL with UEC. Both build on the same ethernet PHY but UAL script the protocol on top down to an admirable minimum. However, UEC with its thicker legacy stack can lean on existing switches to get launched. So which is it? Are people going to buy into a cleaner stack or are they going to choose the old mess with new shortcuts in order to do risk management.
Great post! Got me wondering… have there been counter examples? Where there is a new standard that didn’t really end up in products eventually? This could be a significant risk for start ups failing because nobody wants to acquire them.
Good point! The Gen-Z consortium, which was designed to replace PCIe 4.0, put out a standard that never ended up going anywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen-Z_(consortium)
But to some degree, that's the risk of running a startup, right?