During the conference SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference, held on 17 November 2008 in the California city of San Jose, announced the completion of work on the USB specification 3.0. A new standard will allow the popular ten times faster data transfer than in the case of USB 2.0. 
In connection with the preparation work of the USB 3.0 specifications were attended by representatives of such companies as Intel, HP, Microsoft, NEC Corporation, ST-NXP Wireless and Texas Instruments. In developing the new USB pageviews have increased both the speed of data transmission, as well as compliance with previous versions of this standard. Jeff Ravencraft, President of the organization USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) estimates that over one year is sold around 2.5 billion devices with the USB port. Ensuring a seamless co-operation of the products available with the new edition of the USB is therefore extremely important.
USB 3.0, also known as SuperSpeed USB, and offers the possibility of transferring data at speeds to 4.8 gigabit per second (600 MB / s). This means that ten-fold increase in bit rate compared to USB 2.0 (Hi-Speed), which provides a throughput of 480 megabits per second (60 MB / s). Even more spectacular is compared to USB 1.1 (Full Speed), with a speed of 12 megabits per second (1.5 MB / s). In this case, the broadcast is in fact as many as 400 times faster.
Jeff Ravencraft gave the example of which was to illustrate the potential scale of acceleration data. Noted that the message of 1 GB of data via USB 3.0 takes 3.3 seconds, compared to 33 seconds needed for USB 2.0. This means that two copies of films (implicitly stored on DVD9 dual layer discs) using USB 3.0 will take less than a minute. This is particularly relevant in the context of the next generation of portable multimedia players, which have a greater degree, will focus on video playback.
For so large it was necessary to accelerate the introduction of the new wiring. It was constructed on the basis of optical fibers, but in order to maintain compatibility with older versions of the traditional uses USB cables. It is expected that the cables comply with USB 3.0 will be more expensive than those currently used.
A new feature is also a solution for more effective energy management and to improve cooperation with the devices, whose batteries can be loaded via the USB port. This includes, inter alia, mobile phones and portable media players. Increased the intensity of the current limit of 500mA (0.5 A) to 900m (0.9 A).
Controllers USB 3.0 will be available in the second half of 2009. Products using the USB 3.0 will be in the market probably in early 2010. It is expected that this will be the first device storing data in flash memory, external hard drives and portable media players. Fred Bhesania, the representative of Microsoft, has declared support for USB 3.0 in the subsequent scenes of Windows. Did not reveal, however, the version of Windows will be enhanced to support this standard.
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