IDF 2007: 10 times faster than USB 2.0
We are quite happy with the speed of
USB 2.0 but I guess in this technology the sky is the limit. Intel's
own Pat Gelsinger announced that Intel is working on making the
faster USB. They even have some prototypes and the new USB will be
wired or optical.
USB 2.0 can get to speeds of 480
Mbits/s while the new one will be 10 times faster. If the match turns
to be good the new USB 3.0 will have a speed of 4.8 Gbit/s and
converted to Megabytes we are talking about 600 MB/s transfer.
This technology is still quite far away but
we can see that at least the draft is done.
