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 ...

Audio and desktop PCs have a long history of not playing well together. Most PCs get okay audio, but your average desktop doesn't have great sound-system tuning, which leaves you having to do the ...

Desktop PCs have only been supporting the PCIe 5.0 interface for a couple of years, and the first PCIe 6.0 SSD appeared just last month, but progress waits for nobody. To that end, electronics ...

Expansion buses are connections that allow peripheral controllers to use system resources, such as hard disks, memory and I/O space, and audio/video hardware. The most commonly used expansion bus in ...

Rambus has just announced the availability of its next-gen PCIe 6.0 Interface Subsystem that packs PHY and controller IP, with the latest version of the Compute Express Link (CXL) specification ...

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 ...

The Raspberry Pi 4 is the most powerful Raspberry Pi computer to date, and the first to support up to 4GB of RAM. It’s also the first to support USB 3.0 — and the chip that controls USB is connected ...

What if the compact, portable mini PC on your desk could rival the power of a full-sized desktop? For years, the debate over external GPU interfaces like PCIe and OCuLink has divided tech enthusiasts, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Samsung has inadvertently revealed an upcoming SSD dubbed the 990 EVO. Previously, there was just a Pro model, which uses a PCIe 4.0 interface, and the company has yet to announce a next-generation ...