USB 3.0 specification introduced, will boost speed by 10X
The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has been formed and is promising speeds in the range of 600mbps, 10 times the current 2.0 standard.
USB 3.0 has been in development with Intel Intel, NEC, HP, Microsoft, NXP, and Texas Instruments for awhile now, and it seems they feel it’s ready to go. Intel was the company behind forming the USB 3.0 Promoter Group and will act as the international trade organization for the new standard.
The plan is for 3.0 to be backwards compatible with the previous versions, but will focus more on sync-and-go type of transfers. With the recent release of the 160GB iPod I personally had 119.41GB of data to transfer that took 5 & 1/2 hours to load, so the idea of a sync that goes at 10 times the speed sounds like a good idea when storage devices are getting bigger and bigger.
The current plan is to release the new format sometime in 2008.
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