The final step on the road to publication has passed, and PCI Express 7.0 is coming to a datacenter near you before long.

PCI Express x1 edge connector drawing with pin numbers. The basic board design for a PCIe PCB is highly reminiscent of that of PCI cards. Both use an edge connector with a similar layout.

Unlike its PCI predecessor, which used a shared bus, PCI Express is a switched architecture of up to 32 independent, serial lanes (x1-x32) that transfer in parallel. Each lane is full duplex (see ...

In what must be one of the more unusual PCIe cards we’ve seen recently, Japanese company Kuroutoshikou has introduced a PCI ...