Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th May 2009 14:34 UTC, submitted by James B
NEC has introduced the world's first USB 3.0 controller. "The muPD720200 device is a host controller for PCs and other digital devices, and is based on the new version of the SuperSpeed USB standard. Supporting the world's fastest USB transfer speeds of up to 5 gigabits per second (Gbps) of data, which is 10 times faster than previous USB 2.0 transfer speeds. The NEC Electronics device, as well as the standard, is fully backward compatible with the USB 2.0, 1.1 and 1.0 versions of the USB standard."
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RE: I'm looking forward to these showing up
by Liquidator on Tue 19th May 2009 15:23
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RE: I'm looking forward to these showing up
by ggeldenhuys on Wed 20th May 2009 07:11
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It is sad that Firewire is not that popular - even thou it is a superior design. The Firewire protocol is extremely flexible, can be daisy chained, doesn't require CPU usage, can be used for networking over TCP/IP and all importantly, can transfer more power down the wire for more high-power devices.
Just goes to show, without good marketing, any product (no matter how good) can loose market share.
RE[2]: I'm looking forward to these showing up
by El_Exigente on Wed 20th May 2009 09:51
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Just goes to show, without good marketing, any product (no matter how good) can loose market share.
Not quite correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewire
"However, the royalty which Apple Inc. and other patent holders initially demanded from users of FireWire (US$0.25 per end-user system) and the more expensive hardware needed to implement it (US$1–$2), both of which have since been dropped, have prevented FireWire from displacing USB in low-end mass-market computer peripherals, where product cost is a major constraint."
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2005-07-06
Hopefully they'll be run of the mill by the time I'm ready for another MacBook. Would love 5Gbps on an HD. It'll be interesting to see what happens with firewire at that point, since so many FW-centric devices have begun moving to USB already (video cameras being one).