NEC Announces World's First USB 3.0 Host Controller!

**MIG-31** · May 18, 2009, 02:03 PM

Manufacturers are already gearing up for SuperSpeed USB with NEC being the first to announce the first USB 3.0 host controller, which is about one of the few silicon products that will guarantee instant success in this economy. NEC Electronics expects external hard drives, SSDs, flash drives and of course the computers themselves will be the first to receive the SuperSpeed USB upgrade.
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Source: Everything USB

comp_ali · May 18, 2009, 02:18 PM

Nice , it looks like it will be connected via pcie . It is lower than planned though.
from wikipedia. Universal Serial Bus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A new major feature is the SuperSpeed bus, which provides a fourth transfer mode at 5 Gbit/s. The raw throughput is 500 MByte/s, and the specification considers it reasonable to achieve 400 MByte/s or more after protocol overhead.[35]

May 18, 2009, 02:03 PM	#1
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