The Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) interface celebrates its 20 th anniversary in 2012. PCI was used for years to accommodate expansion cards inserted into computers to provide additional ...

Ever since solid state storage was put on the map, we've seen tremendous strides in storage performance across consumer and enterprise computing uses with the promise of even more to come. With the ...

A standards group wants to explore using optical connections to improve PCIe tech, which currently relies on electrical signals. When he's not battling bugs and robots in Helldivers 2, Michael is ...

A great many developments are shaping the evolution of the data center. Enterprise workloads are increasingly shifting to the cloud, whether these be hosted or colocation implementations. The nature ...

It's a well-known fact that solid-state drives (SSDs) are faster and superior to old mechanical hard drive disks, which are more commonly called HDDs (via Enterprise Storage Platform). An archaic ...

In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, the storage data communications world saw a migration from large parallel buses to faster, streamlined serial interfaces. This was particularly evident in disk ...

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Sunnyvale, Calif.—PLX Technology Inc.'s latest bridge chip dubbed the PEX 8311 is designed to upgrade standard processor, DSP and FPGA bus interface designs to PCI Express (PCIe). The PEX 8311 1-lane ...

For PCI bus interfacing, the OX16PC1952 brings together a PCI interface, two high performance serial channels, and a parallel port in one compact, 128-pin TQFP package. This integrated bridge device ...

Delivers data rate of up to 64 GT/s for high-performance workloads Supports the full feature set of PCIe 6.0 with PHY support for CXL 3.0 Offers complete IP solution optimized for latency, power, and ...

Take a look at the passively-cooled graphics card, shown above, and what do you think stands out? We can tell you that it's a Sparkle GeForce 8500 GT. You can probably discern that much by the ...