While I personally think USB 2.0 is reasonably fast way to transfer data, some of you are more impatient than I am. I can load a film onto my iPod Touch in a matter or seconds, but some of you want it more instantly, and you’re about to get your way. Intel is leading the development of the spec with HP and Microsoft. The reason it’s not here yet is grousing on the part of AMD and Nvidia, who quietly claim that Intel is locking them out of development of the spec, thereby locking USB 3 to Intel-only chipsets.
This isn’t the case, says Intel, and it has publicly stated now that it’s making things as open for its competitors as possible.
The Intel host controller spec is expected to be unveiled to the industry as soon as possible, in the second half of the year. The impatience of our fellow chipset-makers (as described in the press) to leverage Intel’s investment and begin to design great USB 3.0 supporting devices of their own is however very encouraging and should aid a fast USB 3.0 adoption ramp.
Oh, snap. Zip, thump. Now let’s try to get it out in 2009, please, Intel?
About the fastness of your touch:
1) It’s a flash storage device, and as pretty much all flash storage devices, its fast as hell anyway.
2) A movie for iPod touch viewing can’t be over 1GB at most.
Now consider people who:
1) Use an external hard drive through USB to back up their computer
2) Load movies onto their hard drive based iPods
3) Do anything that speed would be nice in involving USB.
Gotcha!
Im not sure how long it takes, but to say copy 10 albums in flac to a PMP device, thats about 5Gb.. then you have the same quality on your pmp as in your archive, no need to mess around with files and make lower quality mp3 files.
Also moving a 100Gb or more to an external drive would be nice if it was as fast as possible, letting the harddrive become the bottleneck instead of the interface..
Since external disks with firewire 800 or even old firewire 400 is moving data faster than USB2 then the inteface has beome a bottleneck.. wich is not good since HDD’s will only become faster over time and the bottleneck will become worse.. its good if we see USB3 soon.
I would think that this is a major technology now that we are all in the HD video era. If one was to try to move a video filling enough space to cram a BlueRay disk, how long would that take over USB 2.0? Answer: Too long. While HD video cams and Smartphones with many GB of storage proliferate, we are going to need a much faster transport agent and USB appears to be the game changer. I really hope there is more press coverage of this over the next few months and i would love to see it released with hardware available by Christmas of 2010.