Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) is a local computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer and is part of the PCI Local Bus standard.

The PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus was defined to establish a high performance and low cost local bus that would remain through several generations of products. By combining a transparent upgrade path from 132 MB/s (32-bit at 33 MHz) to 528 MB/s (64-bit at 66 MHz)...