USB 3.0 to promise 5 Gbps

Remember the days of transferring data via serial or parallel? Those immensely slow speeds that we dreaded to deal with. Pretty soon we will look back at USB 2.0 and say the same thing. The new proposed USB 3.0 spec, which should be out in 2008, promises backward compatibility with USB 1.1 and 2.0. By incorporating Fiber and copper with the new connection you’ll be able to connect your old USB gadgets without a problem, plus they say that you’ll get 5 Gbps speed out of the whole shebang.

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