At 1.2GB/sec, USB 3.1 could spell doom for Intel’s Thunderbolt

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Speed seems to be getting faster every year when it comes to computing. New technology is hitting incredible speeds at affordable prices, something that Intel doesn’t want to hear.

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At CES this January, Jeff Ravencraft, the president and chief operating officer of the USB Implementers Forum USB-IF), told The Reg that the unfortunately named “SuperSpeed” USB 3.0 would double its throughput from 5Gb/sec to 10Gb/sec in its 3.1 incarnation. We recently sat down with him again and saw it in action.

The demo was conducted using a Fresco Logic–developed, FPGA-based, USB 3.1 prototype controller board connected not to a storage device, but to DDR memory. Why not an SSD? “Because there are no solid-state drives that are at that level yet,” Ravencraft explained.

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