what is meaning of PCI?

Answer 1

Peripheral Component Interconnect

Answer 2

A high-speed bus for 486, Pentium and compatible systems. PCI stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect.

Answer 3

PCI

(Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Used in computers of all sizes, it provides a shared data path between the CPU and peripheral controllers, such as network, display, SCSI and RAID cards. However, with so many controller circuits built into the motherboard, the need for vacant PCI slots in a PC has diminished considerably.

Designed by Intel, Compaq and Digital, the PCI bus first appeared in PCs in 1993 and co-existed with the ISA bus for many years. Today, most computers have only PCI slots along with one AGP or one PCI Express slot for the display adapter.

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Answer 4

Short for Peripheral Component Interconnect, a local bus standard developed by Intel Corporation. Most modern PCs include a PCI bus.
PCI is a 64-bit bus, though it is usually implemented as a 32-bit bus. It can run at clock speeds of 33 or 66 MHz. At 32 bits and 33 MHz, it yields a throughput rate of 133 MBps.
Although it was developed by Intel, PCI is not tied to any particular family of microprocessors.
Short for PCI extended, an enhanced PCI bus. PCI-X is backward-compatible with existing PCI cards. It improves upon the speed of PCI from 133 MBps to as much as 1 GBps.

PCI-X was designed jointly by IBM, HP and Compaq to increase performance of high bandwidth devices, such as Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel

PCI-Express
An I/O interconnect bus standard that expands on and doubles the data transfer rates of original PCI. PCI Express is a two-way, serial connection that carries data in packets along two pairs of point-to-point data lanes, compared to the single parallel data bus of traditional PCI that routes data at a set rate. Initial bit rates for PCI Express reach 2.5Gb/s per lane direction, which equate to data transfer rates of approximately 200MB/s.

Answer 5

Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCI slots are made for hooking up your perihperal devices and addons to your computer like network cards, soundcards, video cards, wireless cards, ect.

Answer 6

Pheripheral Communicating interface

Answer 7

peripheral components interconnect
it is used for diffrent cards such as modem ,lancard,t v tuner card etc