Applications do not need to use all elements of a system all the time, and usually not all at the same time for that matter. And not all elements of a system need to be upgraded at the same time, ...

PMC’s Flashtec PMC drives add another high speed layer to the storage hierarchy. It combines DRAM and flash onto to a PCI Express adapter. PMC’s Flashtec PMC drives (Fig. 1) add another high speed ...

A Redditor who enjoys experimenting with old hardware and ancient operating systems recently tried a small but clever ...

Last June, the SD Association announced SD Express, an incredibly fast SD card standard that taps a PC’s PCI Express bus for speeds up to 985 Mbytes/s. Virtually no one adopted it. Now, the SD ...

Did you ever feel like your laptop’s GPU was sub-optimal, or perhaps that your laptop could use a SAS controller? [Rob Rogers] felt like that too, so now he has the only Dell Latitude business-class ...

No matter what, system architects are always going to have to contend with one – and possibly more – bottlenecks when they design the machines that store and crunch the data that makes the world go ...

PCI Express (PCIe) is an emerging protocol for IO devices connection that is being rapidly adopted by the industry. An increasing number of applications require PCI Express connection support. A ...