PCI Expressway: now making its debut in a number of products, PCI Express technology is well on its way to becoming an industry standard.(Technology)(Peripheral Component Interconnect)

Workstations and servers in the graphics community are well known for being the fastest machines on the market. Graphics professionals demand of their systems cutting-edge speed. Whereas processor, graphics, disk, and networking speeds have increased dramatically over the past decade, the PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus used to connect those devices, has remained the same in terms of speed for nearly a decade--and it's showing its age. Developed by Intel, PCI Express completely revamps PCI and provides an upgrade path fast enough for the next generation of workstations and servers.

PCI has been the standard bus for PCs for roughly a decade, eclipsing ...