Products with USB 3.0 support get more and more popularity, major portion of them rests on NEC production controller. It is expected that in the second half-year on the market will appear more USB 3.0 controllers, and motherboards producers will bring the annual release volumes of products with this interface support to twenty million pieces.
Associate with the reference to the statements of asus and Gigabyte management report that the first of the companies can increase the portion of products with USB 3.0 support among its notebooks to 25-35% already to the end of present year, and second work on an analogous proportion of motherboards with USB 3.0 support. In this case Gigabyte expect to release in 2010 approximately five million motherboards with USB 3.0 interface.
Asus already release approximately 1.5 of notebook with USB 3.0 support. In essence this for model average and upper price level, relating to N, U and G series. The support of USB 3.0 interface are ready to propose notebook eee PC 1018P, 1016P both 1015PE and also nettop eee Box EB1501U. In the beginning of 2011 asus will inject USB 3.0 support for netbook initial level.
Now the USB 3.0 controller from NEC cost notebook producers $10-15, but in the second half-year on the market for USB 3.0 controllers producers must appear ASMedia and VIA, which will propose competitive decisions at the price of approximately $8. According to IDC forecasts, in 2012 45% of newly released notebooks will possess USB 3.0 support.