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Genesys to Begin Mass Producing USB 3.0 Controllers

Posted 09/17/09 at 08:41:12 PM  by Ryan Whitwam

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Are your USB 2.0 gadgets starting to feel a little slow? Well, luckily USB 3.0 controllers are about to enter mass production. Genesys Logic plans to start churning out the faster controller chips in the first quarter of 2010. Expect to start seeing it around later next year. Genesys expects to turn a profit almost immediately.

USB 3.0 was approved by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group last November. The new technology uses a 0.13µ process instead of the 0.18µ process used in USB 2.0. Early indications are that the 3.0 standard is capable of up to 10 times the speed of current USB technology. USB 3.0, or “SuperSpeed USB” as it’s also known, is expected to make up a quarter of the market by 2013.

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TAGS: usb, USB Flash Drive, USB 3.0, usb superspeed, usb 3.0-to-sata chip
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avatarUSB 3.0: SuperSpeed USB USB

Submitted by metal chihuahua on Fri, 09/18/2009 - 6:54am

USB 3.0: SuperSpeed USB

USB 4.0: LudicrousSpeed USB

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avatarBeen waiting for this

Submitted by Mr E on Thu, 09/17/2009 - 7:04pm

FINALLY USB will be competitive with eSATA. This will make it a lot easier to have a very fast external drive for backup, that can be transported to almost any other computer. eSATA seems to still be fairly rare.

Now if they can just get 10GBASE-T down to the consumer level. I love the idea of have a network at home that's actually faster than both SATA and USB3!

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