14 DAY TRIAL // Thunderbolt's selling performance was lackluster even before USB 3.0 jumped from 5 Gbps to 10 Gbps, but the performance leap was what really forced Intel's and Apple's hand into making a jump of their own, from 10 Gbps to 20 Gbps.
Neither interface actually sold much in their improved forms though.
However, Thunderbolt 2.0 motherboards now coming out, USB-IF could not, in good conscience, not offer at least a taste of their progress.
Long story short, Fresco Logic, a global fabless semiconductor company, has demonstrated 10 Gbps USB, or USB 3.1.
The speed was achieved thanks to a bi-directional data link that more than doubles the effective bandwidth of the SuperSpeed standard.
Now we just have to wait for devices and motherboards with support for it to actually come out and sell.