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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
The PC’s next-generation internal peripheral bus has been quietly overturning both the PC and the embedded-computing industries with its performance and expansion potential. Largely unknown to users, the PC industry, with embedded computing following close behind, is in the middle of a quiet shift in technology. The overtaxed PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus for add-in cards is slowly giving way to the serial PCIe (PCI Express). This change is bringing new capabilities and performance levels to desktop-, laptop-, and embedded-computing systems, but it is also creating short-term design challenges with the technology evolving faster than its adoption....more  (0) Comments
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