PCI Express to be Rapidly Adopted Reports In-Stat/MDR.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 2003 Offering significant changes over PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. should be universally adopted among notebook and desktop PCs as well as workstations and servers, reports In-Stat/MDR (http://ww.instat.com). The high-tech market research firm expects that the increased performance, improved latency (1) The time between initiating a request in the computer and receiving the answer. Data latency may refer to the time between a query and the results arriving at the screen or the time between initiating a transaction that modifies one or more databases and its completion. , and Quality-of-Service guarantees for data delivery in real time presented by the new architecture should lead to rapid adoption, with the first PCI Express chipsets hitting the market in volume in Quarter 2 2004. PCI Express represents a second attempt to establish a universal Input/Output (I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output ) architecture for PCs, servers, and workstations. The first attempt, PCI, is still the primary architecture for the vast majority of machines on the market. However, the need for increased speed in servers, as well as for graphics in higher-end machines, led to PCI offshoots, PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. and Accelerated Graphics Port See AGP. (hardware, graphics) Accelerated Graphics Port - (AGP) A bus specification by Intel which gives low-cost 3D graphics cards faster access to main memory on personal computers than the usual PCI bus. (AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) A high-speed 32-bit port from Intel for attaching a display adapter to a PC. It provides a direct connection between the card and memory, and only one AGP slot is on the motherboard. ) respectively, which fragmented frag·ment n. 1. A small part broken off or detached. 2. An incomplete or isolated portion; a bit: overheard fragments of their conversation; extant fragments of an old manuscript. 3. the PCI market. "Leading PC vendors all have PCI Express on their roadmaps, and its adoption in new PCs beginning in 2004 is certain," said Brian O'Rourke Sir Brian na Murra O'Rourke (1540?–1591), hereditary lord of West Breifne (modern County Leitrim) in Ireland during the later stages of the Tudor reconquest of that country, was proclaimed a rebel and became the first man to be extradited within Britain. , a senior analyst with In-Stat/MDR. In-Stat/MDR has also found that: -- For similar PC types, consumer segments will adopt PCI Express before corporate segments because of the lack of requirements for stable platforms, consistent configurations, or Information Technology (IT) qualification in the consumer segment -- Desktop PCs will adopt PCI Express before notebooks due to shorter design cycles. -- Intel is expected to be among the first to market with their PCI Express chipsets in the second and third quarters of 2004. NVIDIA, VIA and SiS are expected to release chipsets within one quarter of Intel's release date. The report, "PCI Express in the PC: A Bigger Pipe for Desktops & Notebooks" (#IN0301564MI), covers the penetration of PCI Express into the market for notebook and desktop PCs only (it does not cover workstations, servers or backplanes). The report includes quarterly percentage forecasts for PCI Express penetration into four PC categories through the fourth quarter of 2006: consumer desktop, consumer notebook, corporate desktop, and corporate notebook. It also includes annual shipment forecasts through 2007 for consumer and corporate desktops, and total notebook markets, along with PCI Express penetration into each of those markets. Brief profiles of leading chipset A group of chips designed to work as a unit to perform a function. For example, a modem chipset contains all the primary circuits for transmitting and receiving. A PC chipset provides the electronic interfaces between all subsystems (see PC chipset for illustration). manufacturers are also included. To purchase this report, or for more information, please visit: http://www.instat.com/catalog/Ccatalogue.asp?id=161 or contact Erin McKeighan; emckeighan@reedbusiness.com or 480-609-4551. The report is priced at $1,195. 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