This showed that the Raspberry Pi would happily talk with a VL805-based USB 3.0 PCIe expansion card, as well as a Realtek RTL8111-based Ethernet card, but not a number of other PCIe cards.

Anyone who has a gaming PC knows that you use a PCIe socket for installing the most important component on your PC, a graphics card ... USB port like a USB-c or if you want to add more USB 3.0 ...

The only problem was that the PCIe interface was dedicated to the USB 3.0 controller; but that’s nothing a hot-air rework station couldn’t fix. We’ve previously seen steady-handed hackers ...