Bad news: Nvidia has confirmed Intel’s stance on USB 3.0 — no Intel chipsets will support the new standard until 2011. Short of Intel stating something different, USB 3.0 probably won’t hit mass consumption until then. Is there any hope?
We’ve already seen an Intel motherboard hit the market with USB 3.0, but it’s technically manufactured by Asus, and it’s running a third-party USB (3.0) controller. So we’ll see USB 3.0, especially in the custom PC market, before 2011 (because we already are). But like we said, in terms of the standard arriving in mass anytime soon, things are looking grim. [TGDaily via Engadget]
matt
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10:59 AMwith high speed pci express busses, there is no added benefit to having it built into the chipset anymore (unless you have LOTS of expansion cards)
and with Asus already releasing a cheap usb3/sata6 combo card, there is no reason why the rest of the industry can’t push ahead without intel holding their hand. (I wonder if intel is holding out to see how lightpeek goes?)
David Anderton
Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 8:59 PMintel blows goats… NY just sued them for spending $5billion on screwing AMD