USB 3.0 specifications released! Will support trf of 5 Gb/s

November 18th, 2008

USB 3.0 Promoter Group today released its version 1.0 of the specification to ‘USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF)’, the managing body of USB specifications. This move effectively opens the spec to hardware developers for implementation in future products.USB 3.0 will support transfer speeds upsto 5.0 Gb/s which easily outbeats the USB 2.0 which provided 480Mbps. The update has some after 8 long years, the first since April 2000.

USB3 would be backward compatible but the technology is much advanced. The new powe managagement features provides idle, sleep and suspend states. Commercial devices shall label USB 3 as “USB SuperSpeed”.

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