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"Many current and future programs are pushing computers to the limits, calling for faster processors, memory, graphics, networks and storage; all of which requires faster interconnects. The PCI bus has served us well, ushering numerous I/O devices over the last decade. However, the time is finally coming to replace this old standard with a newer and faster protocol. It is already possible for an ATA 133 hard drive to overload the bandwidth of the PCI bus. Now let us consider RAID, SCSI and even Gigabit Ethernet."
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