Daniel Brierton
14
Jun '08

Nvidia teaming up with others to create alternative to USB 3.0

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Nvidia, AMD, VIA and SiS announced they are sick of waiting for the USB 3.0 spec to be finalized, so they’ve decided to go against Intel and create their own host controller for USB 3.0, which could lead to confusion for the end user. Intel claim that the specification is not being held back, and that it simply isn’t finished yet. But this group of companies have decided that this isn’t good enough and plan to create their own spec.

The problem with this is, when people buy USB 3.0 compliant devices, there may be incompatibility with some computers



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