PCI and PCI-X are not directly compatible, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that means you’re out of luck if you need to use a PCI-X card in a machine that only has basic PCI slots.

PCIe superseded PCI and PCI-X. Unlike its PCI predecessor, which used a shared bus, PCI Express is a switched architecture of up to 32 independent, serial lanes (x1-x32) that transfer in parallel.

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"We have leveraged our extensive experience with PCI-based IP solutions to develop a PCI-X core optimized for our nonvolatile, single-chip Axcelerator devices," stated Yankin Tanurhan, senior director ...