Texas Instruments has developed a custom solution for running PCI Express hardware over gigabit-Ethernet Cat6-grade cabling. While it’s not part of the new PCI Express standard (which means it won’t be implemented in every new machine), the ability to connect various pieces of hardware into a modular system using simple, cheap cabling, instead of the giant, screwed-together towers we use now could be an interesting approach to computing, at least on the low-end. On the high-end, though, the limited bandwidth of this technology will mean that mother and daughter cards are probably here for a long, long time (unless they can advance the speeds of the cable-solutions at roughly the same pace).
Read – PCI Express Over Cable Opens Door For Modular PCs [ExtremeTech]
Read – PC systems Pony up to PCI Express [MachineDesign]
