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.

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 ...

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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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sonnet Technologies has announced the Fusion RAID Expander, which can be used to connect up to ...

A boundary-scan test and in-circuit programming controller card from Corelis, the PCIe-1149.1, enables board testing and in-system programming of CPLDs, FPGAs, and flash memory devices approaching ...

The new Mac Pro has a modular design that makes it easy to upgrade or swap out components. Read along for details on how to install PCIe cards as well as specs like the power of the PCIe bus and what ...

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 ...

PCIe has been around since 2004. It’s a high-speed serial computer expansion bus specification that replaces older PCI and PCI-X standards. PCIe currently supports the Generation 4 specification. In ...

Nvidia has already introduced PCIe 5.0 power connectors in its recently launched $1,999 GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics card. The various partner models of the card are coming with one or even two 16-pin ...

This is a sort of "what if?" kind of thing. I've noticed that PCIe 3.0 x16 tops out at 15.75GB/s while DDR3-1600 runs at 12.8GB/s. Aside from having to make an entirely new memory controller, it makes ...