When system architects sit down to design their next platforms, they start by looking at a bunch of roadmaps from suppliers of CPUs, accelerators, memory, flash, network interface cards – and ...

Are you ready for your PC to communicate by light? Don’t hold your breath, unfortunately. But the possibility became more real as the PCI Express Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) said today that it’s ...

PCIexpress 7, or PCIe 7, is the next (next) generation of PCI Express technology that will increase the available bandwidth for all add-in cards on your desktop PC. I know, I know — you may still be ...

Members of PCI-SIG can now access the 0.3 draft specification for PCIe 8.0, the first official description of the upcoming protocol's objectives. Continuing the steady rate ...

Your Raspberry Pi is already a pretty compact and complete package, and if you get smart with it, it's also very, very ...

Neither Intel nor Nvidia have said exactly when the first fruits of its co-designed integrated CPUs will ship. But the ...

The platform support is here, but the next-gen drives themselves are only just getting out of bed. I have been a technology journalist for 30-plus years and have covered just about every kind of ...

One to note: a potential upgrade for a Raspberry Pi home computer setup. The Raspberry Pi team has released the M.2 HAT+ Compact. The new, smaller variant of the M.2 HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5 lets you ...

Hybrid chips from these two heavy hitters portend a new kind of processor—and, maybe, new classes of PCs entirely. What does ...

‘M.2 HAT+ Compact’, as it will be known, therefore allows a 30mm NVMe SSDs to be fitted inside the case, or other 30mm PCI ...

“Extending PCIe over fiber is essential for next generation disaggregated computing infrastructure,” said Stephen G. Daly, President and Chief Executive Officer, MACOM. “The MATA-38794 and MALD-38795, ...

Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag’s hardware team, covering at various times printers, scanners, projectors, storage, and monitors. I currently focus my testing efforts on 3D printers, pro and ...