California-based chipmaker Marvell has acquired PCIe and CXL switching silicon provider XConn Technologies for approximately $540 million. The cash and stock deal is expected to be finalized in early ...

At FMS 2025, Samsung has debuted its next generation of server-grade PCIe storage with the Samsung MVP PCIe 6 SSD, available in capacities of 256TB and 512TB. That's no typo, either—we're looking at ...

TL;DR: PCI-SIG released the PCIe 8.0 specification version 3.0, targeting ultra-high-performance workloads like AI, quantum computing, and edge computing. PCIe 8.0 offers 256 GT/s raw bit rate and up ...

Forward-looking: Following the recent completion of specifications for PCIe 7.0, the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) has already begun work on the next generation. While consumer PCs typically ...

When thinking of AI, images of futuristic robots or self-driving cars may come to mind. What might not come to mind are the unsung hardware component heroes that are quietly enabling such complex ...

Sorry buster, but your fancy build with its PCI Express 5.0 support is obsolete. Old news. Yesterday's tech. Woefully behind. And...we're just kidding, so don't go tossing your Intel Arrow Lake or AMD ...

Want true next-gen SSD performance? Start with a compatible rig—and one of our top tested PCI Express 5.0 M.2 drives. Here's how to choose the right bleeding-edge SSD for your PC. Since 2004, I have ...

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It probably won't make your games load faster, but for enterprise scenarios where fast-moving files are the norm, it could be a game-changer. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

PC components have a finite number of channels that connect with the CPU. These channels are physically built into the CPU, the motherboard, and the components themselves — and they're called PCIe ...

A brief timeline of PC graphics bus interfaces. The history of the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus. The status of the current industry-standard PCI Express (PCIe) bus. Prior to the PC era, ...

Consider a city that suddenly doubled the number of lanes on its busiest highway. Traffic now flows faster, more efficiently, and with less congestion. That's exactly what PCIe 5.0 brings to PCs — ...