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Intel Releases USB 3.0 Controller Interface Spec

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lookit-all-them-wires dept.

hardsky submitted thrilling news about everyone's favorite interconnect cable by saying "USB 3.0 is set to deliver data-transfer speeds of up to 5Gb/s, initially over tweaked connectors and wiring and, later, over optical links."

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  1. Sigh by Tyler+Eaves · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Still the same symmetrical plug design....stupid, stupid move. Would have been that hard to add a ridge on one side or something, so you don't have to stare at the end??

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    1. Re:Sigh by Intron · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What. You've never had plug rage? The last time was trying to get the power plug off a 10-year old hard drive. It seemed to have been superglued.

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  2. Re:Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Doesn't matter. It is a universal serial BUS.

    This means that traffic to and from many slower storage devices can share the path so any speed increase is still a good thing, right?

  3. Where is the "standars" body by bogaboga · · Score: 3, Insightful
    From the actual body of the story...

    Intel has provided chipset makers with a draft specification for a USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Interface (XHCI), making good a promise it made a couple of months ago.

    I thought we had a standards body that would release such a spec to developers. This development in my opinion, might have other chip makers release a "renegade USB 4.0" promising new features and the like.

    Question is; is it up to manufacturers to think of ideas, name them and release these to the general public? What's up with IEEE Standards group, whose global standards include Biomedical and Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Information Technology and Information Assurance among others?