In mainstream PCs, PCI was slower to replace VLB, and did not gain significant market penetration until late 1994 in second-generation Pentium PCs.
PCI's heyday in the desktop computer market was approximately 1995 to 2005.
By 1996, VLB was all but extinct, and manufacturers had adopted PCI even for Intel 80486 (486) computers.
EISA continued to be used alongside PCI through 2000.
PCI's heyday in the desktop computer market was approximately 1995 to 2005.
Many new motherboards do not provide PCI slots at all, as of late 2013.
PCI and PCI-X have become obsolete for most purposes; however in 2020 they are still common on modern desktops for the purposes of backward compatibility and the low relative cost to produce.
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