USB 3.0 brings optical connection in 2008

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Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008, a revamp the chipmaker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires.

Intel is working fellow USB 3.0 Promoters Group members Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC and NXP Semiconductors to release the USB 3.0 specification in the first half of 2008, said Pat Gelsinger, general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, in a speech here at the Intel Developer Forum.


" I had to read that again , 4.8 gigabits per second. "

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thank God! My external burner burns reallly slow going thru a USB 2.0 line. I hope 3.0 is much faster.

YAY! I've been hoping for this for years!

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Originally Posted by killuminati96

thank God! My external burner burns reallly slow going thru a USB 2.0 line. I hope 3.0 is much faster.

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Sorry bud I tried to quote not edit . :pinch:

Thats what I meant Killum , it should be 10 times faster according to the report .

"The current USB 2.0 version has a top data-transfer rate of 480 megabits per second, so a tenfold increase would be 4.8 gigabits per second."

Great news!

Awesome. :happy:

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Originally Posted by peat moss

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Originally Posted by killuminati96

thank God! My external burner burns reallly slow going thru a USB 2.0 line. I hope 3.0 is much faster.

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Sorry bud I tried to quote not edit . :pinch:

Thats what I meant Killum , it should be 10 times faster according to the report .

"The current USB 2.0 version has a top data-transfer rate of 480 megabits per second, so a tenfold increase would be 4.8 gigabits per second."

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Great speed! :w00t:

Read this elsewhere. I just hope they lower CPU utilization with USB as firewire so well exemplifies. Time for better solid-state drives!

10 times faster!!? Thats great! I just hope it doesn't cost to much to implement it, especially with the fiber optic being used instead of copper.

This is great news for people like myself who use external hard drives daily. With speeds much faster than eSATA, I see no need for it.