Leading chipset producers inject the support of USB 3.0 interface. Analysts predict a swift increase in specific devices with USB 3.0 support into the next several years. Motherboards producers are ready to sell in this year several million products with USB 3.0 support. Intel chipset sixth series, which will appear in the first quarter next year, will provide only SATA-600 support , ignoring USB 3.0 interface.
Some time ago appeared rumors about Intel intentions to present the discrete USB 3.0 controller. Associate again tried to generalize existing information about Intel plans on the introduction of USB 3.0 support for its chipset. Associate report with the reference to the commentary of Intel representatives that USB 3.0 will not receive wide acceptance in the following operating system Windows. In other words, Intel can detain the introduction of USB 3.0 support in its chipset to the second-half 2011.
In the opinion of experts, passage to the general introduction of USB 3.0 holds in control the limited audience, which will win from this passage. The high-speed data disk, photo- and video cameras - are here the basic types of devices, which will feel the benefit from the passage on USB 3.0. The majority of devices are good with USB 2.0. Furthermore, USB 3.0 has a number of competitors like HDMI or eSATA. Some analysts consider that Intel counts on the high-speed information transmission along optical channels.