PCI Express (PCIe) has been around since 2003, and in that time it has managed to become the primary data interconnect for not only expansion cards, but also high-speed external devices. What also ...

Stuff using PCI Express 5.0 is still coming out, while the PCI Express 6.0 spec is already finalized and will show up in PC parts eventually. But have you thought about what's next after it? The PCI ...

No matter what, system architects are always going to have to contend with one – and possibly more – bottlenecks when they design the machines that store and crunch the data that makes the world go ...

PCI Express 7 is nearing completion, the PCI Special Interest Group said Tuesday, and the final specification should be released later this year. PCI Express 7, the backbone of the modern motherboard, ...

Q: What is PCI Express? A: PCI Express is a scalable, high-speed, point-to-point serial interface designed to replace PCI. Also known as PCIe, it features power ...

While the long overdue upgrade to PCI-Express 4.0 is finally coming to servers, allowing for high bandwidth links between processors and peripherals. But perhaps the most exciting use of this new ...

Can you really believe it's been six years since we first saw PCI-Express? Even PCI-Express 2.0 has been around since 2007, and three years later, here we are with the next generation ratified and ...

Hard drives have seen their performance improve more than any other component over the last half-decade, all thanks to the popularization of solid state tech. Now, there’s a big leap forward that ...

Design teams today must implement PCIe solutions that meet both active and low idle power requirements of today’s power sensitive markets, especially mobile and battery operated applications. The ...

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.

Computing and communications technologies have advanced along with changing markets, bringing these technologies together at the silicon, board and system levels. The compute industry has evolved ...

If you're having trouble with your computer's PCI-E video card, temporarily disabling it to run diagnostics using the on-board video can be much easier than trying to work around crashes and video ...