Intel Releases xHCI (USB 3.0) Draft Specification
by Jiang on Aug.14, 2008, under General
Recently, revision 0.9 of the Extensible Host Controller Interface was announced in support of the USB 3.0 architecture. USB 3.0, also known as Super-Speed USB, will be 10 times as fast as USB 2.0 (High-Speed) due to the addition of a fiber-optic cable. Various groups, including AMD, Dell, NEC, and Microsoft, support a common xHCI specification and are likely to adopt Intel’s standard.
The draft specification is available under a royalty-free license in accordance with an xHCI contributor agreement. This should help promote the success of the new standard, and we should be seeing USB 3.0 devices within a year or two.
Intel’s press release is available here.
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