A good news for Intel fans, the largest provider of chipsets in the world – Intel, is planning to implement the USB 3.0 chipset on its motherboard before 2011.
But if you are looking forward to use the USB 3.0 right away, you could purchase the USB 3.0 PCI card which likely available in most computer market.
So, how fast is usb 3.0? It has a bus speed of 5Gbps, which means 10x than the high-speed 2.0 USB. After encoding and other overhead, the bus can carry 400MBps of data.
The 5 GHz USB 3.0 spec got plenty of attention at the Intel Developer Forum last month with a dozen chip, system and software vendors showing products with throughput up to 250 Mbytes/second.
Related posts:
- Intel Light Peak Technology: 10Gbps Data Transfer – Faster Than USB3.0
- SuperTalent USB 3.0 RAIDDrive – Super Speed USB Flash Drive
- Virgin Media’s 100Mbps BroadBand Service : In UK By End Of 2011
- Intel X25-V SSD: 40GB Capacity 4X Faster Than 7200RPM HDD
- Corsair Voyager GT 128GB – USB Disk Drive 2.0
- Imation Wireless USB Data Storage – 15Mbps Transfer Speed
- Active Media Aviator 312 – SuperSpeed USB 3.0 External SSD
- HP TouchSmart 600 Quad Series AIO PCs – Intel Core i7 Processors
{ 1 trackback }