Sandy Bridge to get native USB 3.0 support

[Imperceptible]

We have asked around and it turns out that USB 3.0 native support is there, but Intel didn’t want to talk about it, as apparently the USB 3.0 spec is still not 100 percent closed and Intel is a bit careful. Basically the company didn’t want to announce support before it was a 100 percent sure.

http://fudzilla.com/processors/item/20347-sandy-bridge-to-get-usb-30-support

So it seems we should be getting both native SATA 6Gbit/s and USB 3.0 support with the new Sandy Bridge chipsets. That would help explain what the "secret hidden feature" is too:

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/23...d-feature-seen-on-gigabyte-p67-ud7-board.aspx

 

[8steve8]

seems unlikely to be true.

 

[Campy]

IMO it's not very surprising at all.

 

[Daemas]

i kind of figured they'd have to put it on or else they lose people to AMD chipsets. now they can add a $2 chip and charge $10 extra to motherboard companies for the chipsets.

 

[Kantastic]

Guess the Light Peak development isn't going too well.

 

[khansolo]

Both Daemas and Kantastic's posts make me feel bad. Blah Intel, make up your mind.

 

[8steve8]

what this might be about is intel adding a usb3 chip like NEC's to the platform specification... but its unlikely it will be native on the chipset/cpu.