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THE USB Implementers Forum will formally announce the technical specifications of the next generation of Universal Serial Bus connectivity at a conference in San Jose, California, next week.
Despite a difficult birth – hampered by infighting and political shenanigans between the big players, including Intel, Nvidia and AMD – the new standard is expected to be something in the order of ten times faster than the current USB 2.0 specification.
Everything USB is reporting that a 25GB file can be transferred in just 70 seconds using the new system, compared to nearly 14 minutes for USB 2.0 and a pitifully slow (how did we ever cope?) 9.3 hours for 1.0.
That's 4.8Gb a second. Other improvements will include better power management and the use of optical cabling.
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