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    Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard...
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  • Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group, is an electronics industry consortium responsible for specifying the Peripheral Component Interconnect...
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    PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe or PCI-E, is a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard...
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  • Thunderbolt (interface) (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    DisplayPort IEEE 1394 (FireWire) Interconnect bottleneck Lightning DockPort List of interface bit rates List of computer peripheral bus bit rates MacBook Pro...
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    16-pin 12VHPWR connector (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    The 16-pin 12VHPWR connector is a standard for connecting graphics processing units (GPUs) to computer power supplies for up to 600 W power delivery. It...
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    U.2 (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    U.2 (pronounced 'u-dot-2'), using the port SFF-8639, is a computer interface standard for connecting solid-state drives (SSDs) to a computer. It covers...
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    M.2 (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) official website Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) official website Understanding...
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  • Active State Power Management (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    Active-state power management (ASPM) is a power management mechanism for PCI Express devices to garner power savings while otherwise in a fully active...
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  • Message Signaled Interrupts (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) are a method of signaling interrupts, using special in-band messages to replace traditional out-of-band signals on dedicated...
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  • PCI configuration space (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    PCI configuration space is the underlying way that the Conventional PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express perform auto configuration of the cards inserted into their...
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    List of computer hardware manufacturers M.2 Overclocking Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) PCI-X PCI Express (PCIe) Single-board computer Switched-mode...
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    vastly improved Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) that displaced ISA in 1992, and PCI Express from 2003 which abstracts the interconnect into high-speed...
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    Root complex (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    In a PCI Express (PCIe) system, a root complex device connects the CPU and memory subsystem to the PCI Express switch fabric composed of one or more PCIe...
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    Accelerated Graphics Port (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) is a parallel expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer system to assist in the acceleration...
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    PCI-X (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    PCI-X, short for Peripheral Component Interconnect eXtended, is a computer bus and expansion card standard that enhances the 32-bit PCI local bus for...
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    Mobile PCI Express Module (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) is an interconnect standard for GPUs (MXM Graphics Modules) in laptops using PCI Express created by MXM-SIG. The goal was...
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  • Single-root input/output virtualization (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    specification. The SR-IOV offers different virtual functions to different virtual components (e.g. network adapter) on a physical server machine. SR-IOV uses physical...
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    PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    electronic instrumentation platforms in current use based on the Peripheral Component Interconnect bus, which includes PCI Express (PCIe). These platforms are...
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  • Compute Express Link (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    Compute Express Link (CXL) is an open standard interconnect for high-speed, high capacity central processing unit (CPU)-to-device and CPU-to-memory connections...
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  • memory PCI bus, a bus between motherboard and peripherals that uses the Peripheral Component Interconnect standard USB (Universal Serial Bus), a standard...
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    CompactPCI (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    CompactPCI is a computer bus interconnect for industrial computers, combining a Eurocard-type connector and PCI signaling and protocols. Boards are standardized...
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  • CompactPCI PlusIO (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    CompactPCI PlusIO is an extension to the PICMG 2.0 CompactPCI industrial standard for modular computer systems. CompactPCI PlusIO was officially adopted...
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    1196 OPTi local bus used on early Intel 80486 motherboards. Peripheral Component Interconnect or Conventional PCI Parallel ATA (also known as Advanced Technology...
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    of supporting the upgrade. A few graphics cards still use Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) slots, but their bandwidth is so limited that they are...
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    IEEE-1496. In 1997 Sun started to migrate away from SBus to the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus, and today SBus is no longer used. The industry's...
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    bandwidth desired for graphics. It would be superseded by Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), starting at speeds of 133 MB/s (32-bit at 33 MHz in...
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  • PCI hole (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    The PCI hole or PCI memory hole is a limitation of 32-bit hardware and 32-bit operating systems that causes a computer to appear to have less memory available...
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  • ExpressCard (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    ExpressCard, initially called NEWCARD, is an interface to connect peripheral devices to a computer, usually a laptop computer. The ExpressCard technical...
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  • civil engineering Picocurie (pCi), a unit of radioactivity Peripheral Component Interconnect, a computer bus PCI-X (PCI eXtended), a computer bus PCI Express...
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  • Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (category Peripheral Component Interconnect)
    struggle with limitations of the interconnect's performance (bandwidth and latency) or with limitations due to the interconnect's architecture (such as lacking...
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