Add-on cards have always served a great purpose in allowing us to add technologies to our systems without upgrading the entire machine. One such case that I encountered was building up a system based ...

The USB3380 and USB3382 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 peripheral controllers bridge to PCI Express 2.0, matching the high-performance 5-Gbit/s bus speeds. The USB3382 features two PCIe Gen2 x1 ports while the ...

BEAVERTON, Ore. & TAIPEI, Taiwan -- September 18, 2009-- Fresco Logic, a global fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops and sells USB 3.0 connectivity solutions, is sampling its USB 3.0 ...

If your company is at the forefront of the PC industry, by now you are probably aware that USB 3.0 is here. Controller chips are starting to ship, and you are already dealing with design issues around ...

PCI Express is absorbing functionality from other common interfaces like SAS and SATA, reducing the number of interfaces that systems will require. Ethernet has already hit that point, pushing out ...

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 ...

Intel is working to boost data transfer speeds with a faster pipe on Thunderbolt, a high-speed connector technology that link computers with peripherals, the company said on Thursday. Intel in the ...

Taiwanese manufacturer MSI has announced a new motherboard Z68A-GD80 (G3), which according to the company will be the world's first motherboard to utilize the PCI Express Gen 3 (3.0) bus standard.