Super Speed USB 3.0 Specification is Finalized and Available to Developers
Previously we talked about the USB 3.0 Physical Connector Design and its initial USB 3.0 Specification with 4.8Gbps Transfer speed, now seems that the actual specification has been finalized and transitioned to USB-IF (USB Implementers Forum) for further publication to developers. This is definitely great news to all and hopefully able to end recent widespread rumors that Intel (one of the USB 3.0 promoters group besides Microsoft, NEC, HP, Texas Instruments and ST-NXP) was holding back the specifications from being released to other competitors such as AMD and NVIDIA in an attempt to gain competitiveness with faster Time-to-Market advantage.
The most obvious improvement as compared to its predecessor, USB 2.0 standard is definitely the maximum transfer speed that has been scaled up significantly with USB 3.0 theoretically transfer rate of 4.8Gbps, that makes it a better choice for developers to integrate into on new platform over IEEE 1394 Firewire or other legacy interfaces. Besides, USB 3.0 is claimed to have new internal power management function that can support suspend, idle and sleep states for better power savings.
As expected, the USB 3.0 will be backward compatible with current USB 2.0 compliant devices in the market. With the current specification release, all manufacturers are able to implement USB 3.0 compliant host ports on their next generation platforms now and we are looking forward for the actual USB 3.0 controller to be available by second half of 2009 followed by the first complete prototype ready by 2010.
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January 3rd, 2009 23:16
[...] USB 3.0 specification has been finalized two months ago and it has become one of the hottest topics in today’s industry. While most of us still need to wait till early of 2010 to get the commercial product based on USB 3.0, but if you have chance to visit upcoming CES 2009 event soon, you may able to get the first feeling of how fast USB 3.0 will stream data to the USB 3.0 compliant external storage with the demonstration plan put in place by Symwave together with few other cable and component manufacturers. [...]
December 6th, 2008 15:07
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November 25th, 2008 00:02
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