The Future of ICT

The first round of USB 3.0 consumer products are on show at the CES trade show in Las Vegas this week, after the USB Implementers Forum announced the first 17 devices to pass compliance and certification testing.

USB 3.0, also known as SuperSpeed USB, provides the bandwidth to transfer data at close to ten times the speed of USB 2.0 and offers improved power management, according to the USB Implementers Forum.
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By now, most enthusiasts are aware of the bold claims concerning the performance potential of USB 3.0 peripherals, but supporting controllers have only recently started dribbling onto the scene. However, fully testing the capabilities of this technology would require some kind of data device that is at least as fast as the fastest controller and such a device does not yet exist (we’d need something capable of pushing more than 500 MB/s).

We probably shouldn’t expect to tickle the upper reaches of what USB 3.0 can do any time soon. After all, it was more than a year after the introduction of “hi-speed” USB 2.0 before devices were able to offer 35 MB/s speeds, which still fell far short of the interface’s rated 480 Mb/s (60 MB/s) specification.
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