According to a story over at Fudzilla, it's being whispered around Taipei among the vendors gathered for Computex, that "at this time you cannot expect any USB 3.0 designs based on Intel's reference spec design from anyone but Intel".
The article's implication is clear: Intel is keeping all this stuff to itself for competitive advantage.
We'd say it's really too soon to say. For starters, the USB 3.0 specification isn't done and dusted yet - though it's due "mid-2008", according to past Intel prognostications.
The SuperSpeed USB roadmap
The timetable for the technology then calls for product development - chips that support the interconnect, and devices that'll use them to control ports - to run through well into 2009, with the first products going on sale round about that time.
USB 3.0 at the socket...
Widespread adoption of the technology isn't expected until 2010.
...and the connector
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