usb3-150x150 USB 3.0 in the PipelineNow contain yourself! News that has released the final draft specification for has been sending ripples of excitement throughout the PC industry. You too will have to come to terms with a whole load of new jargon if you want to stay ahead of the . Provisionally dubbed ‘ ’ the big selling point is that are up to 10 times faster than 2.0, which means a whopping 5 Gigabits per second. That’s really fast, quick enough to whizz a DVD from one place to another in just a few seconds and it’s going to make things like transfer from things like MP3 players, cameras and storage devices virtually instantaneous. Plugs and sockets look superficially similar, and it should be backwards compatible but sockets have an extra 5 contacts, set behind the front five contacts and these are the ones that carry the . Read the rest of this entry »