PCIe next gen is here—for.oh

Now in its 25th year the durable spec keeps on giving. PCI is yet another foundation gift Intel has given the PC industry (like USB and WiFi) that has been extensible, and useful for over a quarter of a century. When the PC industry started in 1981, we had the 8-bit ISA bus. It evolved and for the next few years, several new bus designs came into being. As part of the new PS2 computer IBM introduced the 32-bit Micro Channel Adaptor bus, or “MCA” in1987. A group of PC manufacturers created a new bus, called the Extended (or Enhanced)