The Great Wall of China took on its familiar look during the Ming Dynasty. The oldest parts of the 4,500-mile-long Great Wall of China date back to the 7th century B.C., when Chinese rulers first built border fortifications to keep northern armies at bay.
The Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) is a point-to-point processor interconnect developed by Intel which replaced the front-side bus in Xeon, Itanium, and certain desktop platforms starting in 2008. It increased the scalability and bandwidth available. Prior to the name's announcement, Intel referred to it as Common System Interface. Earlier incarnations were known as Yet Another Protocol and YAP+. QPI 1.1 is a significantly revamped version introduced with Sandy Bridge-EP. QPI will be replace
(Redirected from Peripheral Component Interconnect) Conventional PCI, often shortened to PCI, is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer. PCI is the initialism for Peripheral Component Interconnect and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard. The PCI bus supports the functions found on a processor bus but in a standardized format that is independent of any particular processor's native bus.