Intel and others plan to release a new version of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology in the first half of 2008 – the chipmaker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber optic links alongside the traditional copper wires.
Intel is working fellow USB 3.0 Promoters Group members Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC and NXP Semiconductors to release the USB 3.0 specification in the first half of 2008,
There’s typically a one- to two-year lag between the release of the specification and the availability of the technology, so USB 3.0 products should likely arrive in 2009 or2010.
The current USB 2.0 version has a top data-transfer rate of 480 megabits per second, so a tenfold increase would be 4.8 gigabits per secong. Many device don't need that much capacity, but some can use more, including hard drives, flash card readers and optical drives such as DVD, Blu-Ray and HD DVD. The fastes flash card readers today use IEE 1394 "FireWire" conncetions that top out at 800 megabits per second.
In addition, USB 3.0 will offer greater energey efficiency It will be backward compatible, so current USB 2.0 devices will be able to plug into USB 3.0 ports.
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