USB 3.0 Hardware Coming In 2010
It seems like we’re only just starting to get to the point where all new hardware has been shipping with USB 2.0 ports when all of a sudden news starts appearing that the long talked about USB 3.0 specification is finally going to appear.
IBM recently announced and demonstrated a USB 3.0 technology prototype. They’re saying that the new spec is expected to deliver roughly ten times the capacity of USB 2.0 … approximately 5Gbps or so. It’s also going to be backward compatible with USB 2.0 so that the USB 2.0 devices will work on a USB 3.0 port. I assume that USB 1.0 would also be included in that backwards compatibility but havent seen anything concrete confirming that yet.
From what I’ve read on Engadget, Ars Technica, Slashdot tech and other sources, I’d say that we can reasonably expect to see USB 3.0 ports and devices appearing sometime in late 2009 to early 2010.
Meanwhile, I’m sure somebody is already dreaming up USB 4.0 Can you say 5 terabytes a second?
Ok, so it’s a bit extreme. We can still dream can’t we?
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