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Nikon’s D800 DSLR Is the First Camera to Gain USB 3.0 Certification

SuperSpeed USB continues to gain market traction among the consumer electronics industry, the recently announced Nikon D800 and D800E professional DSLR cameras being the first such products to feature USB 3.0 support.Nikon’s digital SLR’s were certified by the USB Implementers Forum to support this standa...

10 February 2012
20:01 GMT

USB 3.0 Will Let Processors Communicate with Each Other

The Universal Serial Bus 3.0 SuperSpeed interface is about to gain a new role, one that will be different from enabling communications between storage units and host products. Not too different, though, since intercommunication is still what it will accomplish, only between the processors of a single device. USB-IF...

20 November 2011
05:52 GMT

Genesys Logic Expects Great Things from USB 3.0

As the latest iteration of the universal serial bus standard gains prominence, companies involved in the market see good things ahead, and this goes especially well for Genesys Logic. Right now, Renesas is the major supplier of USB 3.0 controller chips in the world. In fact, the company has held that spot sinc...

23 September 2011
10:22 GMT

New Renesas USB 3.0 Products Get Certified by USB-IF

Renesas has been the main force on the USB 3.0 front since very early on, and this position has been strengthened now that a pair of recent chips have received certification on the part of USB-IF. The USB implementers Forum (USB-IF), as the name implies, is a consortium of corporations that always develop newer an...

22 September 2011
03:40 GMT

VIA Labs USB 3.0 Host Controllers Receive USB-IF Certification

VIA Labs has sent out a press release just a few moments ago to let us know the company has managed to gain USB-IF certification for two of its SuperSpeed USB 3.0 host controllers, the VL800 and VL801. Both of these solutions are single chip USB 3.0 host controllers, which enable a PCI Express equipped platform to...

14 September 2011
09:45 GMT

USB Will Be Able to Deliver Up to 100W of Power to Your Devices

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has just announced that it has started working on a new set of specifications designed to extend the capabilities of the USB interface by enabling it to deliver as much as 100W of power to connected devices.According to the group, the new specification will coexist together with the USB Bat...

10 August 2011
05:57 GMT

Etron USB 3.0 host Controller Recognized by USB-IF

Until recently, there weren't many USB 3.0 controllers on the list of USB-IF-certified ones, but it looks like one new member has made it, that being the EJ168 which Etron developed quite a while ago.The USB Implementers Forum could be said to be very strict when it comes to certifying any controller chip.In fa...

25 May 2011
05:02 GMT

ASMedia Joins Group of Companies With Certified USB 3.0 Controllers

There are a bunch of USB 3.0 host controllers on the market, but only some of them have, thus far, gained the official approval of the USB Implementers Forum, and it looks like the crowd has grown by one.When it comes to new technologies, there are certain performance and quality standards that one needs to meet bef...

18 May 2011
03:11 GMT

USB-IF Certifies Four-Port USB 3.0 Host Controller

The USB Implementers forum has already certified quite a few SuperSpeed-ready devices, all things considered, but it looks like it finally got around to four-port host controllers as well, one developed by Texas Instruments to be exact.By now, users will well know of the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 connectivity standard and ...

11 April 2011
09:33 GMT

USB-IF Certifies 200 SuperSpeed Products, Starts New Certification Program

It appears that the USB Implementers Forum is just as busy as ever with testing and approving SuperSpeed devices, and it looks like CeBIT 2011 became the place where the USB-IF's further plans were made known.As end-users know, the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface standard has been getting more and more popular.In ...

1 March 2011
09:27 GMT

USB-IF to Exhibit Many New Products at CeBIT 2011

The USB Implementers Forum is, as one would expect, always eager to show off its latest achievements, so it is no surprise to hear that many of its members are getting ready to put on a show at CeBIT, 2011.CeBIT, like CES (Consumer Electronics Show) can be seen as one of the major IT product expos that are held on a...

3 February 2011
04:34 GMT

USB-IF Certifies 165 USB 3.0 Products

Once again, proof has appeared to show that the USB 3.0 Standard has become quite popular, enough for certain companies to actually receive special recognition for some of their inventions.As end-users know, the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard has been showing up in more and more external storage units, even though nati...

5 January 2011
05:19 GMT

Many USB 3.0 Devices to Be Demonstrated at CES 2011

The USB Implementers Forum, like any organization focused on advancing its technological portfolio, will be present at the 2010 International CES, and it seems that 20 member companies will have something to show.The greatest advancement that the USB Implementer Forum (USB-IF) pulled off was the invention of the USB...

16 December 2010
05:47 GMT

Fresco Logic Determined to Ship 1 Million USB 3.0 Host Controllers by 2010 End

Things definitely look to be heating up in the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 market and Fresco Logic seems to be sure they will get get a big piece of the pie real soon, the company just announcing it will ship 1 million USB 3.0 host controllers by year-end 2010.Recently certified by the USB-IF forum, Fresco Logic's host c...

1 December 2010
03:15 GMT

SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) Adoption to Be Further Boosted by 2'nd Controller Certification

While SuperSpeed USB, also known as USB 3.0, does provide some incredibly fast data transfer rates, its adoption rate is not exactly as fast as everyone had hoped, but things are likely to change for the better on the future, especially since the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced the certification of USB...

17 November 2010
06:50 GMT

Wireless USB Promoter Group Completes 1.1 Specification

Though WiFi and Bluetooth are, for now, the main two wireless connectivity capabilities among PCs and consumer electronics, the crowd has just gotten a bit larger with the addition of the Wireless USB 1.1 specification.Though the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard will likely remain the main I/O standard of note for quite ...

30 September 2010
03:27 GMT

USB-IF Certifies 75 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Products

It would appear that the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface has genuinely picked up some speed if the number of certified SuperSpeed products has increased by 25% in just one month. Back at the start of March, USB-IF (the USB Implementers Forum) came out and announced that 50 devices had passed its certification tests. Now...

2 April 2010
09:25 GMT

50 Devices Pass USB-IF SuperSpeed USB Certification Tests

It is no surprise that the USB 3.0 standard has seen such a rapid rise in popularity, considering that it can achieve read and write speeds ten times faster than those of its predecessor. In fact, even though actual platforms with this functionality built in are relatively few, a decent amount of external storage dev...

2 March 2010
05:29 GMT

USB-IF Slaps Palm over Apple iTunes Issue

Apple's iTunes solution is quite popular around the world, and there are many who would love to have their devices able to connect to it, especially Sunyvale-based mobile phone maker Palm when it come to its newly launched Pre smartphone. The two companies have played cat-and-mouse ever since Pre was landed on t...

23 September 2009
05:37 GMT

Certification Program for USB 3.0 Launched, Devices Closer to Debut

One of today's most widely used connectivity interfaces is the Universal Serial Bus, better known as the USB, a technology that enables users to connect various types of devices among themselves for data transfer and power. In its current state, the technology has reached its 2.0 version, which provides users wi...

2 September 2009
05:05 GMT


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