Designing compact industrial servers, 1U/2U edge nodes, or specialized workstation enclosures is an exercise in physical compromise. System administrators and IT specialists routinely encounter a frustrating bottleneck: fixed motherboard layouts. While you might have a highly capable PCIe 5.0 x16 slot available on your single-board computer (SBC) or industrial motherboard, the physical constraints imposed by the system’s chassis end up breaking your deployment plans. A mass