PCI and PCI-X are not directly compatible, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that means you’re out of luck if you need to use a PCI-X card in a machine that only has basic PCI slots. And yet, that ...

Specifications for two new interconnect technologies were released yesterday by the Peripheral Component Interconnect-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), the group said in a press release (download PDF) ...

The company's latest vertical card-edge connectors provide 280 positions for interfacing serial PCI Express signals to riser cards in rack-mount servers. Connector series 10037901 accepts either a ...

In the past decade, PCI has served as the dominant I/O architecture for PCs and servers, carrying data generated by microprocessors, network adapters, graphics cards and other subsystems to which it ...

The latest version of PCI Express brings massive bandwidth increases to PCs, enabling truly blistering SSD read and write speeds up to 14,000MBps. Here's what you need to know to get your PC storage ...

How PCIe 5.0 technology’s higher speeds introduce new design challenges. How the introduction of precoding in the PCIe 5.0 protocol enhances the robustness of the link. How retimers enable reach ...

Richard Solomon has heard the rumblings over the years. As vice president of PCI-SIG, the organization that controls the development of the PCI-Express specification, he has listened to questions ...

One of the most comprehensive refreshes of Intel architecture will start rolling out this summer. The PCI Express bus will replace current I/O interfaces, such as PCI for device interconnects and ...

Any gamer worth their salt fondly recalls how RAIDed hard drives were the setup to have before SSDs came along. Now that SSDs are the new standard, they can also be put into RAID arrays for ...

With a three year cadence between PCI-Express bandwidth increases and a three year span between when a gear shift is first talked about and when its chippery is first put into the field, it is ...

Gen 4 stuff is not only cheaper, it's also better. Now that's progress for you. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This month I've ...

Anyone who’s bought or researched buying a new SSD for their PC understands their limitations: they’re often constrained by the PCI Express bus to the rest of the PC, and they generate tons of heat.