This is going to sound like a storage thread, but bear with me, I promise it ends up being about motherboards and CPUs.<BR><BR>I have this 200GB Seagate 7200.7 sitting here that isn't doing anything.

Specifications for two new interconnect technologies were released yesterday by the Peripheral Component Interconnect-Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), the group said in a press release (download PDF) ...

San Jose, Calif.—NEC Electronics America Inc. expanded its PCI Express (PCIe) chip portfolio to include a low-power, single-port PCIe-to-PCI/PCI-X bridge chip. With a small form factor of 17 square ...

Intended for networking and storage applications, the uPD720405 single-port PCI Express-to-PCI/PCI-X bridge chip features a 17 x 17-mm size. The low-power device supports x4 PCI Express lanes and a ...

PORTLAND, OR, - July 15, 2002 - The PCI-SIG, the Special Interest Group responsible for PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express industry-standard I/O technologies, announced today that twenty-five leading ...

PCI-X takes you to server builds, fewer choices and higher prices.<BR><BR>PCI will limit you to somewhere around 100 MB/s. If you have another significant component on PCI, e.g. gigabit networking, ...

Big-name computing companies have begun speaking out in favor of the PCI-X technology for plugging network cards and other devices into servers. IBM and Hewlett-Packard will start incorporating PCI-X ...

Newest IP core continues seven-year legacy of complete PCI-based solutions from Xilinx and provides customers with a smooth migration path to 133MHz designs SAN JOSE, Calif., January 27, 2003 - Xilinx ...

Parallel buses are giving way to high-speed serial/pseudoserial buses, especially in I/Os and system interconnects. Buses like PCI and PCI-X, the universal PC I/O and embedded system buses, will ...

The Golden Gate family of serial peripheral interface bridge processors provides a means to connect PCI and PCI-X buses to the SPI3 and SPI4.2 high-speed serial network interfaces. The processors ...

A new technology for connecting PCs to peripherals and other computers will bear fruit in 2004, but it won't conquer the industry overnight. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where ...

SAN FRANCISCO--3GIO, a major architecture standard expected to be at the heart of future computers, edged a step closer to reality Wednesday with the release of the first draft of the specification.