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.

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 ...

As PC technology has evolved, the ability to use standard desktop and portable computers for sophisticated test, control, and design applications has improved dramatically. Economies of scale have ...

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 ...

Dialogic Corporation announced the availability of seven media boards compatible with PCI Express bus architecture. The boards are identical in the feature and functions to their PCI universal ...

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 ...

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