Comments on: Intel USB 3.0 update resolves dispute with Nvidia, AMD

Rival chipmakers AMD and Nvidia step back from a threat to go their own way. The high-speed spec, due in 2009, is now 90 percent complete.

[oldmanangry]

This is silly grand standing by Nvidia and AMD. Releasing a spec at 90 percent means many devices will not work because they are written to work with the 90 percent spec. Part of being a reporter doesn't mean just reporting both sides but also seeing if one side is full of crap. USB 2.0 was done the same way and turned out just fine.

[fdunn3]

Who said anybody was manufacturing anything at the 90% spec? They are simply working out the kinks on the specs internally at all the participating companies. Once the spec is signed off by everybody then it will go public.

[Lerianis]

Actually, no, it wasn't done the same way (USB 2.0). USB 2.0 was made by many companies, working together every step of the way. As to 'many devices won't work because they will be written to work with the 90% spec'.... wrong. At 90%, there shouldn't be any real changes that would make for incompatibility problems.

Personally, I am hoping that this time they 'do a Firewire' and have processing power in the USB 3.0 chipset to take some of the CPU overhead off the main computer processor.

[Yuhong2]

Also, usually the 0.95 specs allows implementation using discrete chips only, while the 1.x specs allows implementation inside the chipset.

[wallm]

um..wireless USB? what happen to dat?

[make_or_break]

So everyone one else EXCEPT Nvidia and AMD was willing to defer to Intel this time around prior to this agreement. Guess they figured if they could bend over for Sony and their control over the BD spec, they can do the same with Intel...

[Maccess]

at the end of the day what will happen is that consumers are going to be so confused with USB 3.0a, 3.0b, 3.0c, that they'll stick with 2.0 until the next peripheral connection standard, which will not be any version of USB.

[SixVodkas]

Meh.

It'll probably be just like USB2.0 in respect to the claimed speeds.

USB2.0's published spec includes system overhead and doesn't give you "480mbps".

Heck, even FW400 is faster than USB2.0 (FW800 slaughters it), and FW's next iteration might be a better bet yet.

[postelwait]

@wallm

i think the price on wireless usb was too high for manufacturers to implement it into their devices. there are some usb devices out there that use 802.11g to be "wireless."

[maldelus]

I hope they fix the problems before they rush it to market. I am talking of the old 'cart before the force' mentality.