The long awaited USB 3.0 was announced today from the “USB 3.0 Promoter Group”, promising speeds of up to 5.0Gb/s, six times the 480Mb/s speed from USB 2.0. It’s been 8 years since USB 2.0 was announced in 2000, but it’s been well worth it, and I think it’s safe to say that the Universal Serial Bus is here to stay.
Apple, with their most recent release of Apple Notebooks, did not have what had been become the most popular of video production connections, Firewire, hence what was inevitable…USB 3.0. What seperates the new spec past what 2.0 contains, is bi-directional support using four-wire differential signal wiring as compared to half-duplex two wire differential wiring. All of the technical aspects can take a back seat to what we really want, speed.
Although the spec has been announced, we won’t see anything physical until late 2009 and no consumer products until 2010.
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Tue, Nov 18, 2008
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