NEC Japan announces its SuperSpeed USB 3.0 controller
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted May 18th 2009 2:56PM
posted May 18th 2009 2:56PM
Have you got that USB 3.0 cable on your hope chest, just killing time until your SuperSpeed dreams become a reality? Well, that day is almost at hand: NEC has just announced details for the first USB 3.0 controller. The µPD720200 chip is backwards compatible with USB 1.1 and USB 2.0, with the company making samples available this June at $15 a pop (including Windows drivers). Look forward to seeing peripherals hit the streets soon after. Until then? Like the rest of us, you'll just have to keep on keepin' on.
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faster.......a little faster..a little more............Too fast take it back.
That's what she said....?
Why support USB 1.1? I Haven't seen a device using it in a long time...
I'm pretty sure quite a few input devices still use it.
A keyboard generally doesn't need USB 2.0, which is more complex to implement.
If it's easily possible, then why *not*?
With USB 3.0 faster than FireWire (even faster than 3200), hopefully in the next few years we can finally see FireWire go away.
FireWire is great in all, but I would rather see everyone just stick to one connection type (plus firewire is only really used anymore in hard drives).
Actually, firewire is used in most high end professional audio and pro video devices.
along came eSata
depends on where you go. FireWire is used as the standard in the audio/ visual / imagery industry...
A few things..
1) It has not been proven yet whether or not USB3 will be faster. USB 2's maximum signaling rate is 480mbps, yet it never gets over 260mbps throughput in the real world.
2) Firewire is a far better DMA architecture that doesn't need USB's CPU intervention, carriers far more power than USB3, and can be daisy chained.
Unfortunately however, as has been seen with FW800 and USB2, the better technology doesn't always win. I'm sure USB3 will become the de-factor high-speed standard. For now, I will use eSATA or FW800. I REFUSE to use USB2 for external harddrives.. that is a freakin joke!
JUNE?!?!!??! DOES THIS MEAN THE NEW IPHONE WILL HAVE USB 3.0?!?!?!#!#?!#%
sorry guys, had to. =P
Quick! To the presses! Get Engadget to write another iPhone related news post!
@crawdad
Palm Pre and the Zune phone will have USB too!
Can you imagine what one of those USB humping dogs would do with that kind of throughput???
The rare, honest to god, lol.
Thank you.
The question is: when will we realistically see this being offered built in to laptops? ..especially MacBooks.
You must not understand how this works:
1) Entire industry adopts something.
2) Apple bashes it for being crappy.
3) 1-2 years later, they re-hash idea and become self-proclaimed gods.
4) CRAZY PROFIT!!
I'm confused... what happened to "??????" ?
but if Apple uses Intel everything chipsets it'll probably be out in the macbooks a year or the next apple WWDC... or if there are enough mac specific usb 3 devices out there to force apple's hand to create something rather than vice versa
I'm waiting on USB 3.0 for a number of purchases (laptop and HTPC), so any news about it being released soon is good news.
My guess is - in laptops around Christmas. In Macs - next year.
So, when can we really expect to see these in retail mobos?
"company making samples available this June at $15 a pop (including Windows drivers). Look forward to seeing peripherals hit the streets soon after."
Large volume commercial production of a chip does NOT start "soon after" sampling... I'd guess you won't see USB3 until Christmas at the earliest.
$15 a pop - OUCH! thats expensive for a usb controller, anyone know how much usb2 controllers are? Cant see gigabyte paying $15 for usb3 on each of their motherboards, they would only be able to put it on their highend boards.