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peripheral component interconnect (PCI)

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Introduced in 1993, the most common expansion bus architecture in PCs in the mid 1990s. It transfers data in parallel over a data bus that is either 32- or 64-bits wide.

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Introduced in 1993, the most common expansion bus architecture in PCs in the mid 1990s. It transfers data in parallel over a data bus that is either 32- or 64-bits wide.

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A popular expansion slot architecture invented by Intel that succeeded the ISA slot and that is succeeded by PCIe.

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