Intel Delaying USB 3.0 Chipsets?
Filed under: Computer Hardware, Computers | By: Jamie Pert
Posted on: October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
According to a recent article posted today on SlashGear it seems that Intel may be delaying the release of their USB 3.0 chipsets, the news apparently is sourced from an “unnamed industry source”.
If this source is correct it seems that Intel will be delaying the release of USB 3.0 until 2011, whether this source is reliable is not yet known, therefore as we hear more information we will keep you posted, if it turns out to be true I wonder if other manufacturers will delay their launch too.
In my opinion the release of USB 3.0 is long overdue, it is over 9 years ago since USB 2.0 launched, although USB 2.0 is said to peak at a transfer rate of a ‘High Speed’ of 480 Mbit/s (therefore should be able to transfer data at about 60MB’s per second) actual transfer rates are said to be a lot slower than this.
USB 3.0 is said to offer a peak transfer rate of 4 Gbit/s, this roughly equates to 400MB’s per second, the actual transfer rates that will be accomplished will be less than this, however a great improvement over USB 2.0.
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It is told by the PC manager that USB 3.0 “won’t get real traction until it gets integrated in the chip sets,”
That poses a problem for a handful of chip makers rolling out products such as storage controllers for the technology. But it would not be the first time Intel and Microsoft initiative managers have rallied the industry to support a new spec only to have their own key product teams move slowly to adopt it.