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.

With an insatiable appetite for higher data rates, the PC industry is poised to double the speed of the PCI Express (PCIe) bus to 5 Gbps. PCIe 2.0, the latest version of the peripheral data bus, will ...

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PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) is quietly entering both the PC and embedded-computing markets, lifting the bus-bandwidth limitations of PCI without compromising legacy ...

Moore’s Law might be slowing down CPU compute capacity increases in recent years, but the innovation has been coming at a steady drumbeat for the interconnects used inside servers and between nodes in ...

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 ...

Why the need for PCI Express?As processor clock speeds increase, parallel buses such as PCI become harder to implement. Signal skew and fan-out restrictions restrict the bandwidth achievable on a ...

We've jumped many chasms over the past three decades of server-based computing. In the 1990s, we went from single-socket standalone servers to clusters. Then with the millennium, we first saw ...

The standards body responsible for the PCI Express bus is cruising right along towards PCI Express 6.0, the next-generation standard that is still on track for a finalized specification in 2021. As ...