http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 5:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
On an unrelated note-does anyone want to buy my $300 HD-DVD player? and all 6 of the HD-DVD's that I have?]]>Jun 11th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/

YES USB will be backwards compatible with USB 1.0 and 2.0 but guess what? We are gonna end up being forced to upgrade all our equiptment or we'll get those

WARNING THIS DEVICE REQUIRES USB 3.0 - INSUFFICIENT POWER]]>Jun 11th 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/I was an early adopter of usb 2.0, even went through the pularva of memory sticks that didnt even function on older usb 1.0s because of insufficient power. ]]>Jun 11th 2008 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
Agreeing on standards is a good thing. Even for the major companies. Just ask Toshiba's accountant.]]>Jun 11th 2008 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 10:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
All of these companies need to get their shit together and standardize preferably through a standards organization.]]>Jun 11th 2008 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Implementers_Forum

and if you check their latest bulletin on USB 3.0 :

http://www.usb.org/press/press20/2007_11_28_usb30promotergroup.pdf

You;ll notice that the main contact listed for the group in charge of ratifying the standard works for Intel, and neither AMD nor NVIDIA is on the board.
So I'm thinking Intel gets to do whatever it wants with USB3.0]]>Jun 11th 2008 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
Competition always wants the guy ahead to slow down so that they can catch up. ]]>Jun 11th 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
Intel is doing anything wrong in this instance, but AMD helps themselves look better by saying Intel is acting like the anti-trust suit claims.

It's all a publicity warfare campaign.
]]>Jun 11th 2008 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
Nice. Douche. ]]>Jun 11th 2008 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
Unfortunately, that looks like it's happening anyway, so I dunno.]]>Jun 11th 2008 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/

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Yes I love my External FW 800 drive. However the price was insane.]]>Jun 11th 2008 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
This is on a completely random tangent, but alsoL HDMI VGA COMPONENT MINIDVI DVI S-VIDEO DISPLAY PORT COMPOSITE AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!! all to do one thing: display images.]]>Jun 11th 2008 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/SCSI-1, Fast SCSI, Fast-Wide SCSI, Ultra SCSI, Ultra Wide SCSI, Ultra2 SCSI, Ultra2 Wide SCSI, Ultra3 SCSI, Ultra-320 SCSI, Ultra-640 SCSI. Add on top of that all the differant methods of attachment, 50pin, 60 pin, SAS, and probably even a few more.]]>Jun 11th 2008 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 19th 2008 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9780794-7.html

The copper is for backwards compat.]]>Jun 11th 2008 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
You've got two competitors, AMD and nVidia teaming up to go against AMD's other competitor, Intel.]]>Jun 11th 2008 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 5:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
Going to B my L on all of their T's.]]>Jun 11th 2008 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/
Why in the world would you want to the two biggest (and pretty much only) gpu manufacturers in the world to become one? It is competition that breeds innovation. ]]>Jun 11th 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/]]>Jun 11th 2008 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/Jun 11th 2008 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/11/amd-and-nvidia-accuse-intel-of-withholding-usb-3-0-specs//sarcasm]]>Jun 11th 2008 11:50PM