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PCI Express (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express), officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a high-speed standard used to connect hardware components inside computers. It is designed to replace older expansion bus standards such as PCI, PCI-X and AGP. Developed and maintained by the PCI-SIG (PCI Special Interest Group), PCIe is commonly used to connect…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCI Express | Created by | Intel | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Created by | Dell | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Created by | HP | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Created by | IBM | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | External interface | Optional (supported with OCuLink or other forms of PCI Express External Cabling, tunneled over USB4 and Thunderbolt) | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Hotplugging interface | Optional (supported with ExpressCard, OCuLink, CFexpress or U.2) | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | No. of devices | 1 on each endpoint of each connection[a] | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Speed | Dual simplex, up to 242 GB/s | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Style | Serial | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Supersedes | PCI | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Supersedes | PCI-X | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Supersedes | AGP | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Website | pcisig.com | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Width in bits | 1 per lane, up to 16 lanes | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | Year created | 2003; 23 years ago (2003) | 1.00 | infobox |
| PCI Express | is a | metal enclosure | 0.90 | text |
| PCI Express | is a | layered protocol | 0.90 | text |
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