NEC Introduces First SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Controller

[Arclight]

"I'm giving her all she's got, Captain!"

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/...30-controller/

[SteamWake]

Nice with transfer speeds like that I see virtual drives in my future

[longam]

Your HD drive on a USB stick - Back to terminal work stations.

[Onkel Neal]

Samples of its µPD720200 host controller will be available starting June priced at $15 each.

Huh? Count me in right now.

[geetrue]

Shipping in September: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/usb_30_equipped_pcs_will_be_shipping_end_year

Taiwanese manufacturers might have positioned themselves to begin shipping SuperSpeed USB (aka USB 3.0) before the curtain falls on the year 2009, according to the July issue Nikkei Electronics Asia.

The magazine believes that it was quite evident from the various prototypes on display at the SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference held in Tokyo May 20-21, 2009 that the commercial rollout of the next-gen USB interface in PCs is nigh.

Japanese company NEC Electronics Corp shipped samples of the first USB 3.0 host controller in early June and expects to churn out a million every month beginning this September. The first devices based on the interface will most certainly be external hard disk drives, with more exciting applications like hd video streaming expected to follow later.

[Zachstar]

Its good to see this going forward. I will still be using USB 2 for the next few years but the thought of being able to actually carry drives that can handle STEAM just fine with me is quite nice.

[SUBMAN1]

Lets hope it can offload the CPU a bit better than its USB 2.0 cousin. There is a reason high speed devices prefer Firewire you know.

-S