Patent ID: 8102671

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a first riser card that substantially axially connects with a first serial connection external interface of a printed circuit board (PCB) and at least in part laterally connects with a parallel connection external interface of a first memory module, wherein the first riser card is configured to accept more than one type of memory modules, wherein the first riser card supports the first memory module with avoidance of abutment of the first memory module with a second memory module supported by a second riser card that is adjacent to the first riser card; wherein the second riser card substantially axially connects with a second serial connection external interface of the PCB and electrically and at least in part laterally connects with a parallel connection external interface of the second memory module, wherein the second riser card supports the second memory module with avoidance of abutment of the second memory module with the first memory module; and wherein the first riser card comprises a translator integrated circuit (IC) that through the serial connection external interface of the PCB and the parallel connection external interface of the first memory module communicates between a serial memory protocol within the PCB and a parallel memory protocol within the first memory module.