The USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced the completion of the USB 3.0 specification, the technical map for device manufacturers to deliver SuperSpeed USB technology to the market.
SuperSpeed USB brings significant power and performance enhancements to the popular USB standard while offering backward compatibility with USB-enabled PCs and peripheral devices currently in use. SuperSpeed USB delivers data transfer rates up to ten times faster than Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0) with optimized power efficiency.
“SuperSpeed USB is the next advancement in ubiquitous technology,” said Jeff Ravencraft, USB-IF president and chairman. “Today?s consumers are using rich media and large digital files that need to be easily and quickly transferred from PCs to devices and vice versa. SuperSpeed USB meets the needs of everyone from the tech-savvy executive to the average home user.”
Super-Speed USB 3.0 offers a transfer rate of 4.8Gbps and it will join High-Speed (USB 2.0, 480Mbps), Full Speed, (USB 1.0, 12Mbitps) and Low Speed (USB 1.0, 1.5Mbps) on the list USB standards. On the other hand, a new version of the FireWire stanrdard – S3200 and S1600 was published last August. The so-called “Standard for High Performance Serial Bus,” ” offers speeds of 1.6 Gigabit/second and 3.2 Gigabit/second. Devices, however, aren’t expected until the end of next year/beginning of 2010.
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