The Magic of AMD’s Lightning Bolt
A little bit of thunder and a whole lot of flash….
Last year Intel introduced the first products based off of its proprietary Thunderbolt interface.
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Last year Intel introduced the first products based off of its proprietary Thunderbolt interface.
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Intel’s Thunderbolt press conference at Computex was an embarrassment of riches, only without the riches.
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SuperTalent today announced the launch of the Storage POD Mini, a miniature version of the current Storage POD USB 3.0 external SSD offering.
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Despite the lack of integrated USB 3.0 support from Intel the new standard is rapidly gaining momentum.
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USB 3.0 is rapidly gaining in popularity, but due to its high speed of 5 Gbps it also presents a challenge to designers of hardware since the maximum cable length for a device can be 127 mm – or about 5” without compromising the signal quality.
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USB, which is the most popular standard for connecting peripherals to PCs is now also going inside the box.
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Once the motherboard makers get ready to launch new models based on upcoming chipsets from AMD (AMD) and Intel (INTC), expect to see a much wider range of USB 3.0 host controllers than we’ve seen to date.
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The first USB 3.0 display adapters have finally cropped up, although the products in question are from a Taiwanese company called Sunix which is a maker of all kinds of computer peripherals and add-on cards alongside a range of industrial networking and communications devices and specialized I/O solutions.
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Being the only company with a product in the market with high demand can sometimes be a serious problem and for Renesas (RNECF) things are starting to look bad, as the company is low on supply of its uPD720200 USB 3.0 host controllers and is expecting to run out sometime in May.
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We don’t have a lot of details at hand, nor has AMD (AMD) or the USB-IF issued a press release on the matter, but according to the USB-IF product database, AMD has gained USB-IF certification for both of its upcoming high-end Llano chipsets with integrated USB 3.0 support.
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A couple of weeks ago, yours truly wrote a news story relating to Texas Instruments (TXN) gaining USB-IF certification for two of its upcoming USB 3.0 host controllers that reflected on the fact that none of its smaller competitors have achieved certification, yet all of them are already shipping silicon.
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A computer screen is usually not something you’d consider as something you’d want to show off to your mates, well at least that was the case until today when Samsung (005930:Korea SE) unveiled its SyncMaster C27A750 screen with UWB connectivity.
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ONE OF THE things that have been holding the development of USB 3.0 peripherals back to a degree, at least beyond various storage devices, have been down to lack of a what would be considered a fairly simple component, namely a peripheral controller.
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VLI DIDN’T TELL us too much about future products in our Q&A with them last year, but now we’ve gotten our hands on some details covering three upcoming products from the company of which all are rather interesting.
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BACK IN OCTOBER we reported that Renesas was readying a pair of new USB 3.0 host controllers and the company announced both of the new models today.
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