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.

PCI Express gains I/O virtualization The PCI Express bus has emerged as an efficient and cost-effective platform for network applications. Created to address the performance, scalability and ...

The PCI bus that lets you add peripherals such as modems, sound cards, digitizers, and IEEE 488 interfaces to computers is showing its age. Within two years, PCI Express, a high-speed serial bus, will ...

When system architects sit down to design their next platforms, they start by looking at a bunch of roadmaps from suppliers of CPUs, accelerators, memory, flash, network interface cards – and ...

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 ...

Agilent's E2969A protocol test card lets you perform compliance tests on computer peripherals designed for the PCI Express serial bus. You insert the card into a ...

If the datacenter had been taken over by InfiniBand, as was originally intended back in the late 1990s, then PCI-Express peripheral buses and certainly PCI-Express switching – and maybe even Ethernet ...

Start-up Neterion last week unveiled the first 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter to use the PCI Express bus. Founded in 2001 as S2io, Neterion specializes in such high-speed adapters, having already ...

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) ...

All this is important to know in reference to the news that the PCI Special Interest Group has released version 2 of the PCI Express specification (PCIe 2.0). The specification doubles the transfer ...

NEC is developing a system that can extend the conventional PCI Express interface found in most PCs and servers over standard Ethernet to distances of 2 kilometers or more. ExpEther, as the company ...