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To: bit3 who wrote (255651)8/15/2008 11:15:05 AM
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Some background information for a unbiased view of this specification.

blogs.intel.com

1: Intel is creating the USB 3.0 specification.

Much of the incorrect speculation in the press so far has centred on what the USB 3.0 spec is, and who is creating it. There are two separate standards being developed, USB 3.0 and Intel’s Host Controller spec in support of the USB 3.0 standard. The recent press articles do not properly distinguish these separate specification development efforts.

USB 3.0 – The spec:

USB 3.0 is not an Intel specification; it is being developed by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group (HP, Intel, MSFT, NEC, NXP, and TI). The USB 3.0 Promoters issued a call for contributors in November 2007 and since then the USB 3.0 Promoter Group has been joined by over 180 USB 3.0 Contributor companies (Including other chipset makers such as AMD and Nvidia) who are helping to finalize the USB 3.0 specification. This spec is expected to be made publicly available by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group along with an adopter agreement early in the second half of 2008. (Very soon)

Intel’s host controller spec – wholly different:
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