USB 3.0: Get ready to welcome the future
By Alexis • Sep 17th, 2008 • Category: Lead Story, Mobile Computing Accessory News, USBSoon the world will move 10 times faster. The movement of the data among digital devices will accelerate incredibly. Soon the world will witness and experience the super power of the all new Universal Serial Bus version named USB 3.0.
This specification is still in its prototype stage, but it will hit the consumer market soon. The specifications of the USB 3.0 have already been decided and developed. USB 3.0 is aiming at a bandwidth which is 10 times faster than the current USB, i.e. USB 2.0. This new version has lots of awesome improvements. It will allow users to transmit data at a rate of 5Gbps. That means a PC user will now be able to transfer a whole DVD quality full length movie within seconds. Wouldn’t that be nice? It will totally change the way the world communicates, or in other words, the way various peripheral devices talk to each other.
Apart from the speed, one other major improvement in this new version is that it simultaneously supports two way communications (full duplex transfers). This means that the devices connected via USB 3.0 will be able to send, as well as receive, signals at the same time. This is in contrast to the USB 2.0 devices, like the Super Talent Pico, which can only transmit one signal at a time. It is believed that the new USB standard will also lead to better CPU usage and will be backward compatible with USB 2.0/USB 1.0 too.
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