Press Release
PCI-SIG Announces New Board of Directors and Officers for 2007-2008
Since 1992, PCI-SIG has worked to enable several evolving PCI technologies, including the Conventional PCI™, PCI-X™ and PCI Express (PCIe®) architectures, as well as I/O Virtualization. Each year, the group hosts an election to renew the leadership positions at the helm of PCI-SIG. The recent additions come as a result of these annual board elections held in May 2007. PCI-SIG followed the January 2007 release of PCIe 2.0 by continuing work on I/O Virtualization and launching new investigations into enhancements to PCIe architecture to meet the needs of new and emerging applications - extending the broad adoption of this architecture into 2010 and beyond. With 18 percent growth in membership during the last 12 months, PCI-SIG membership is now near its all-time high with an ever expanding relevance and technology adoption in numerous computing and communications applications. With these and other architectural ehancements, the organization is poised for many successful years ahead. 2007-2008 Board of Directors and Officers
In addition, PCI-SIG also announced that Reen Presnell, Vice President of VTM, Inc., was named Executive Director of the organization. Benefits of PCI-SIG MembershipPCI-SIG members can partiicpate in the review of all PCI specifications before they are released to the industry. If you are interested in becoming a member, please visit the PCI-SIG Web site at www.pcisig.com/membership. PCI-SIG members develop and maintain PCI Express specifications and are actively involved in defining compliance criteria and other technical enabling collateral. As an additional and extremely valuable benefit of PCI-SIG membership, members are given the right to receive patent licenses from any other members of our organization with necessary claims of patent embodied within our specifications. These licenses may be limited in scope to an implementation of a particular specification, but must be granted to all members on reasonable and non-discriminatory terms. About PCI-SIG
PCI-SIG is the Special Interest Group that owns and manages PCI specifications as open industry standards. The organization defines and implements new industry standard I/O (Input/Output) specifications as the industry's local I/O needs evolve. The PCI Special Interest Group was formed in 1992, and the organization became a nonprofit corporation, officially named “PCI-SIG” in the year 2000. Currently, more than 900 industry-leading companies worldwide are active PCI-SIG members. PCI-SIG's current directors are employed by the following PCI-SIG member companies: Agilent, AMD, Broadcom, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Sun Microsystems. For more information about PCI-SIG, and PCI-SIG membership benefits, please visit the PCI-SIG Web site at www.pcisig.com or contact (503) 619-0569 (within the United States). ### PCI-SIG, PCI Express, PCIe, PCI-X and Conventional PCI are trademarks or registered trademarks of PCI-SIG. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. |
