Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Sep 2007 13:12 UTC, submitted by Geoda
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 chip maker 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 with 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.
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2006-01-10
It's frightening how much people pay for those cables. I simply buy them online where you can get them for about 5 bucks. What's even more disturbing is the fact that pretty much all printers I've ever seen don't even come with a USB cable! Even my DSL Modem came with a USB cable. Everything else that requires a cable comes with it, but Printers for some reason never have, even the older Parallel printers. Why is that? I guess it's one of those mysteries like the Hotdogs versus Hotdog buns...