Have you ever seen flashdisk which has the capability to transfer data extremely fast ? If you haven’t, now there is USB 3.0 which has speed 4.8 Gbps to transfer data. This USB even could defeat the the harddisk which has the fastest speed recently. This USB 3.0 product is favourite Intel’s product which then given a name xHCI open USB 3.0. According to Intel, this product will be adopted by motherboard chipset vendor and add-on card vendor. This USB 3.0 has been announced and has entered into final stage in the previous days, but there is no specification released by Intel yet.
In practical, using protocol like USB could cause some compatibility problems if there are so many vendors apply the USB with different ways, just like what happen to Firewire several years ago. Because of that reason, Intel have intention to design one trusted specification to be used in whole world with free royalty license.
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