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Intel: Mainstream USB 3.0 adoption is years away
Intel's plans line up with a study released by In-Stat last year. The firm said USB 3.0 would see widespread adoption by 2012, at which point 70% of external hard drives would use the new spec and around 200 million USB 3.0 flash drives would ship by 2013.
Without integrated support from Intel, hardware manufacturers will have to continue purchasing USB 3.0 host controller chips from NEC, or produce their own. Although Windows 8 is still years away, rumors suggest Windows 7 SP1 will bring native support. If true, OEMs might warm up to the technology, which could boost adoption rates.
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Critias
on March 10, 2010 3:40 PM |
Timonius said: fly_guy said: awww man thats such a shame that it wont be adopted into mainstream until 2012 the worlds gonna end that year :[ Windows 8 in 2012... that IS the end of the world.
On December 21st, 2012, the machines running Windows 8 RC will become self aware and begin their global war against humanity. By exploiting Internet Explorer 6's vulnerabilities they will gain access to the nuclear missile launch codes and will launch a preemptive strike against the world's major cities. The subsequent war of man and machines will last for a century and eventually render the planet uninhabitable. The humans will attempt to launch a messenger back in time to warn us against ever installing Windows 8, but because one intern messed up some calculations that messenger will instead be sent further back in time to the Mayans. So remember, if you ever install Windows 8 the machines will take over, and you don't want that, do you? Because that's what will happen \o/ |
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ludoboss
on March 10, 2010 4:38 PM |
And when Intel speaks i think say the truth. |
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buendia
on March 10, 2010 4:46 PM |
More speed is always welcome I think it the adoption rate greately depends on the price of USB3 devices. |
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Fragrant Coit
on March 10, 2010 5:16 PM |
Depends on what they term as "Mainstream". People who post here will be interested & probably adopt it forthwith if they have need for the extra speed. John & Jane Doe users will either have not heard about it, have no use for it, or ask "What is USB?". I guess thats "mainstream"...??? |
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Guest
on March 10, 2010 7:32 PM |
I guess they'll be using this USB 3 stuff to make Windows 8 "mind blowing" like what was going around recently, huh? lmao. http://msftkitchen.com/2010/02/windows-8-mind-blowing.html |
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Kibaruk
on March 10, 2010 7:55 PM |
Considering the amount of gadgets we own that already are USB 2.0, the cost that means to integrate USB 3.0 in the MB for a couple (if not only 1) of devices that you might probably own, sounds odd. |
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Yoda8232
on March 11, 2010 11:13 AM |
Yeah of course they are talking until completely replaces USB 2.0, this makes sense. But who waits till then? New computers by the summer will have USB 3.0 ports everywhere. |
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levar
on March 13, 2010 12:40 AM |
Sweet! This is good news to my ears can't wait till everything starts using SuperSpeed you need to realize now people want their data fast! I think 2012 is too late sure other companies will offer 3.0 but Dell is a huge part of this, I was think they should've been the first one to start bringing out superspeed out on there systems. I just love how technology grows! 5 years from now probably gonna hear about USB 4.0 lol maybe a bit more than 5 years or not :| |
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RockandRepublic
on March 13, 2010 3:14 AM |
Oh, big whoop. |
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vegasrez
on March 14, 2010 6:15 PM |
Why does it take so long to adopt USB 3.0? |
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bigclick
on March 15, 2010 11:50 AM |
I predict USB 3.0 will gain traction in 2011. External harddrives will be on the shelves just waiting and in the meanwhile be compatible back to 1.1. What's really scary though is Windows 8. |
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