PCI-SIG has announced that PCIe 4.0 specification is finished -- and it plans to have PCIe 5.0 ready to go by 2019. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) Share ...

Next week at CES Plextor will launch a M8Pe nVME SSD. The M8Pe is actually based on a m2 form factor over the Non-Volatile Memory Express-protocol. Basically this product would be a PCI Express add-in ...

What just happened? Most consumer PCs currently use PCIe 3.0 or 4.0 components, while 5.0-supported systems are considered cutting-edge, but the organization overseeing PCIe development is already ...

Since the arrival of the PCIe in 2004, the system interconnect carved out a niche for itself. Key to its success has been consistent speed updates while maintaining backwards compatibility. With both ...

It has been about six years since the introduction of the PCI-Express 3.0 standard. However, we won't have to wait much longer for the PCI-Express 4.0 standard: the final specification should be ...

TL;DR: The PCI-SIG has released version 0.7 of the PCIe 7.0 specifications for member approval, aiming to finalize it later this year. PCIe 7.0 will double the bandwidth of PCIe 6.0, offering 128GT/s ...

We’ve seen a lot of PCIe hacks on Hackaday, and a fair few of them boil down to hackers pulling PCIe somewhere it wasn’t meant to be. Today, we routinely can find PCIe x1, x2 and x4 links sitting ...

PCIe, also known as PCI-Express, is a highly powerful interface. So let’s see what it takes to hack on something that powerful. PCIe is be a bit intimidating at first, however it is reasonably simple ...

So in theory PCI-e is backwards compatible, i.e. that if it fits physically, it'll run electronically. In reality, we hear stories all the time about the x16 slots not working for anything other than ...