SAN JOSE, USA - AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (May 31, 2013) — PLDA, the industry leader in PCI Express® and interface IP solutions and IP-Maker today announced a joint solution integrating PLDA’s XpressRICH3 PCIe 3.0 with IP-Maker’s NVM Express (NVMe) IP cores. Cloud computing, video broadcast and high performance computing applications require high bandwith and low latency storage devices such as PCIe SSDs, enabled by the combination of speed and performance provided by PCIe 3.0 and NVMe protocol.