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USB 3.0 to Deliver a Tenfold Speed Increase
News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:41 PM EST
Article Source: Wired Newsadvertisement
Tighten your seat belts. Data transfer is going into overdrive as the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus, better known as USB, prepares to make a tenfold jump in speed.
That means the vast sea of USB devices -- from HD camcorders to hard drives and music players -- will be able to transfer music, video, photos and other data much, much more quickly.
The new standard, the first update to the USB specification in eight years, will also deliver greater power efficiency and the ability to recharge a wider variety of gadgets -- and it will most likely mean the death of the competing standard known as FireWire.
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{"commentId":4082358,"authorDomain":"christhecanadian"}
This is a pipeline to somewhere. USB bottlenecks may be a thing of the past!
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#1 - Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:42 PM EST{"commentId":4085355,"authorDomain":"acidreflux"}
Not if the processor is still required to arbitrate. The beauty of Firewire is that two firewire devices can negotiate a transfer without any intervention from the CPU once it has started. USB can still be bogged down if the CPU is too busy to handle its part in a timely fashion.
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{"commentId":4087102,"authorDomain":"behindmyscreen"}
Eh... not a big deal AA. In a day and age where video transfers from a device are file based, and you have multiple processors on a CPU, firewire's usefulness is gone.
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{"commentId":4083086,"authorDomain":"lprieta"}
Oh well, my 6 mo old MacBook is obsolete!
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#2 - Sun Nov 16, 2008 12:59 AM EST{"commentId":4083202,"authorDomain":"douglasq"}
R.I.P Firewire. We'll miss you.
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{"commentId":4083176,"authorDomain":"mightyblogger"}
Still hurdles ahead, Intel, AMD and nVidia are all at loggerheads on the specs.
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