USB 3.0 Coming Soon to a Computer Near You?

With ever increasing speed demands the welcome addition of USB 3.0 is highly anticipated. We should see the spec released in the first half of 2008 meaning we the consumers, may see it in products by 2009. By adding fiber optic links alongside traditional copper wire, data transfer rates will be more than 10 times faster. USB 3.0 will be backward compatible with 2.0 and it will be more energy efficient.

A little background here is in order: USB 2.0’s fastest data transfer rate is 480 megabits per second. BluRay, HDTV, hard drives, optical devices and flash card readers will certainly be able to use this speed boost. The fastest flash cards today use firewire with a max speed of 800 megabits per second. Will firewire have an answer? Time will tell.

In the meantime, computer designers will have to figure out how to overcome the high CPU usage that is the result of using USB.

Further reading:

EE Times 

The Inquirer 

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2 Responses to “USB 3.0 Coming Soon to a Computer Near You?”

  1. bloggingzoom.com Says:
    November 19th, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    USB 3.0 Coming Soon to a Computer Near You?…

    With ever increasing speed demands the welcome addition of USB 3.0 is highly anticipated. We should see the spec released in the first half of 2008 meaning we the consumers, may see it in products by 2009. By adding fiber optic links alongside traditio…

  2. Laptop Repair London Says:
    May 5th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    I’m not surprised to be honest, technology is growing so fast USB 3.0 sounds like a good idea though.

 

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