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Upgrade Chip Connects PCIe Cards to Raspberry Pi 4

By Les Pounder

Hidden inside the Raspberry Pi 4 is a PCI Express interface, and hackers are making the most of it.

PCI-SIG Releases Final PCIe 5.0 Specification

By Arne Verheyde

The PCI-SIG organization on Wednesday released the final PCI Express 5.0 specification. The new interconnect standard doubles the bandwidth to 32GT/s per lane, less than two years after PCIe 4.0.

OSS Introduces First PCIe 4.0 Backplane

By Arne Verheyde

Last week at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference (GTC), One Stop Systems introduced the industry's first PCIe 4.0 backplane.

PCIe 5.0 To Be Finalized In 2019; PCI-SIG Fast Tracks Final Spec

By Chris Ramseyer

PCI Express 4.0 Brings 16 GT/s And At Least 300 Watts At The Slot (Update: Not Quite)

By Chris Ramseyer

Kingston Shows Blazing Fast, Low-Latency PCIe NVMe SSD At VM World

By Chris Ramseyer

E1000 takes shape at VM World delivering 1M IOPS with host power fail protection and a low cost design.

Fouth Gen PCIe Sees Bandwidth Double

By Daniel Starkey

This week we got the first details about the fourth generation of the PCI express spec. PCIe 4.0 will have a base speed of 16 Gbps per data link.

SanDisk A110 PCIe SSD: Armed With The New M.2 Edge Connector

By Christopher Ryan

We got our hands on an early sample of SanDisk's A110 SSD. So what? Big deal? Not a chance. This thing is PCI Express-attached and sports the new M.2 edge connector. Read on to learn more about the next generation of solid-state storage connectivity.

PCIe for Mobile Launched; PCIe 3.1, 4.0 Specs Revealed

By Kevin Parrish

The PCI-SIG has launched M-PCIe for mobile devices, and introduced several other specs including M.2, a natural transition from the Mini Card and Half Mini Card.

PCI-SIG and MIPI Alliance Reveal Mobile PCIe Specification

By Tarun Iyer

New specification allows PCIe protocols to operate over MIPI M-PHY to deliver a low-power, high-performance I/O solution.

Sonnet Releases Tempo PCIe Card That Supports Two SSDs

By Niels Broekhuijsen

Sonnet has released two Tempo PCIe SSD expansion cards.

Micron RealSSD P320h Review: A PCIe Drive Capable Of 3.2 GB/s

By Drew Riley

Announced earlier this year, Micron's RealSSD P320h PCI Express-based SSD promises to be an enterprise workhorse. A custom controller, single-level cell NAND, amazingly low latency, stellar random I/O, and incredible endurance combine to blow us away.

Echo Express Pro: Desktop Graphics In A Thunderbolt Chassis

By Andrew Ku

Have the rigors of life on the road forced you to ditch your desktop in favor of a laptop? What if you could add discrete graphics to your Ultrabook? We test the gaming performance of Sonnet's Echo Express Thunderbolt expansion chassis for PCIe cards.