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Hands-on Look At USB 3.0, Spec Details Revealed
notdagreatbrain writes "Maximum PC dug up some new information about USB 3.0, got their hands on the new connectors, and even took a look inside the new cables. They learned several new details about the next-gen version of the ubiquitous interface. USB Superspeed will be backward compatible with USB 2.0. The maximum speed of the new spec is 4.8Gbps, which is ten times faster than hi-speed. Five new wires are bundled in the cable, four of them used for data transfer (bi-directional transfer is now supported). More power will also be funneled through the line, so you can charge more devices, faster. The wireless USB is also getting upgraded to version 1.1, and will include ultra-wide band frequency support and Near Field Communication for near-instant swipe-based syncing."
...for ludicrous speed.
help fill in hidden movie endings @ End of the Credits
After USB full speed and USB high speed, we now have USB superspeed. What comes next? Hyperspeed? FTL-speed?
Ridiculous speed.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Did an Intel marketing manager get the name superspeed from his or her 4 year-old? Couple that with Core i7 and you've got. . . pretty crappy names. I guess Intel's naming schemes have historically stunk (mostly). Here are my suggestions for USB 4, 5 and 6:
USB Superduperspeed
USB Ubersuperduper
USB Ubersuperdupercalifragalisticexpialdocious
Part of the hardcore faithful who believed in Apple long before it was cool again to do so
Unnecessary speed!
USB HOLY SHIT!
ob Ren Stimpy...
"prepare to surge to sub-light speed!.... en.... gage!!!!!!!!!!!"
space............ madnesssssssss.......
No no, Ridiculous speed is too slow. We're going... Ludicrous speed!
~ Old Warriors Society
ex-SCSI-me speed!
Ludicrous speed is great, save for the gaudy plaid cables that are required.
Monstar L
It's for when you want to get something off your pen drive and don't want to bother plugging it in!
Or when someone standing beside you wants to get something off your pen drive without bothering to plug it in!
In other news, USB full speed will still be 12Mbps.
What? Nobody has said
WARP speed.
This is slashdot, this speed should be a given.
USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. See Wikipedia
Thanks! Do you happen to have an explanation for that IBM thing that's confounded me all these years?
This guy's the limit!
lol. but - read the summary: Five new wires are bundled in the cable, four of them used for data transfer (bi-directional transfer is now supported)
So its really a UPB now :)
Ludicrous speed!
Then they go the plaid!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7tc9pVvYg
(link to Spaceballs clip on YouTube)
Firewire 800 is how old, and is how fast? About 6.25 Gbps?
If only they named Firewire standards in a way that let users tell how fast it was just from the name.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Don't forget the Yogurt brand cables and other devices.
May the Schwartz be with you!
If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?
Lint Speed of course. But we'll need someone extremely scared to go this fast. Maybe each USB 4.0 device will incorporate a clone of Arthur.
Those who would give up liberty to obtain working drivers, deserve neither liberty nor working drivers.
NEED FOR SPEED!!! mwahahaaaah!
whut? it's a good one.
great, if they add a few more wires, it might finally catch up with parallel port..