here it comes!!!!!

similar to the internet connection and telephone lines moving from traditional copper cables to fibre optic cables the USB3.0 is also found to be using this technology.

Intel is now working fellow USB 3.0 Promoters Group members Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC and NXP Semiconductors to release the USB 3.0 specification in the first half of 2008, said Pat Gelsinger, general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, in a speech in san francisco at the Intel Developer Forum.



INTEL SHOWED OF THE PROROTYPE AND ADD IN CARD AT THE INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM.

The most important advancement made in this USB 3.0 is that it supports speed up to 10 times of USb2.0.for example now usb2.0 has a transfer rate of 486mbps.ten fold would lead to 4.8GBps.Thats too much speed.not many device need that much speed.But some device such as optical drives blue ray and HD DVD will make use of the speed.

i guess it would compleatly occupy the market in 2009 and 2010.Dont worry about the compatablity because USB3.0 is backward compatablity.It means USB2.0 can also be plugged in to USB3.0.