Specifications for two new interconnect technologies were released yesterday by the Peripheral Component Interconnect-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), the group said in a press release (download PDF) ...

At this point in the history of datacenter systems, there can be no higher praise than to be chosen by Nvidia as a component supplier for its AI systems. Which is why upstart interconnect chip maker ...

Over the past few years, high-end PCs have come to be associated with PCI Express 5.0, the infrastructure that connects graphics cards and SSDs. That’s close to changing, as the PCI Special Interest ...

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 ...

DESIGN VIEW is the summary of the complete DESIGN SOLUTION contributed article, which begins on Page 2. Current parallel backplane technologies are rapidly being replaced with advanced ...

Today's router and switch designers face a daunting task. They must build systems that support high availability while also efficiently and cost-effectively guiding network traffic through a mesh of ...

With the advent of high-speed point-to-point serial interconnect standards like PCI Express, data transfer rates have improved dramatically by several orders of magnitude. For example, PCI Express can ...

PCI Express is a technology that consistently makes headlines, with new specifications boasting ever-improving performance regularly appearing in the news. It may come as a surprise, then, to learn ...

PCI Express is absorbing functionality from other common interfaces like SAS and SATA, reducing the number of interfaces that systems will require. Ethernet has already hit that point, pushing out ...