Pcie card edge connector for power delivery

A baseboard, comprising:

• one or more electrical contacts to receive power from a power supply;
• one or more sockets to each house a processor;
• an interconnect architecture for connecting the one or more sockets to at least one peripheral devices according to a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)-based interconnect protocol;
• a first edge card connection mechanism comprising electrical contacts to couple a particular peripheral device to the interconnect architecture when a PCIe-compatible edge finger tab region of the particular peripheral device is mated with the first edge card connection mechanism;
• and
• a second edge card connection mechanism in-line with the first edge card mechanism, the second edge card connection mechanism comprising electrical contacts to provide power delivery from the power supply to the particular peripheral device when an additional edge finger tab of the particular peripheral device is mated with the second edge card connection mechanism.

A system, comprising:

• a processor;
• an add-in card device;
• a power supply;
• an interconnect architecture for connecting the processor to the add-in card device according to a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe)-based interconnect protocol;
• and
• a power delivery architecture for delivering power from the power supply to components of the system;
• wherein the add-in card device comprises:
• a PCIe-compatible edge finger tab region comprising edge finger tabs coupling circuit components of the add-in card device to the interconnect architecture through a first edge card connection mechanism;
• and
• an additional edge finger tab in-line with the tabs of the PCIe-compatible edge finger tab region, the additional edge finger tab coupling circuit components of the add-in card device to the power delivery architecture through a second edge card connection mechanism.