USB3.0 forks as industry gangs up on Intel
WELL, IT LOOKS like you and I are going to be in for a world of incompatibility and pain in the coming year, USB3.0 is forking. Intel is playing power games again, the industry is going around it, and we all lose.
Word has come to us that most of the industry is not going to wait for Intel, and is forming their own consortium to do it themselves. The two standards won't be compatible of course and both will be called USB3.0, so when you buy a PC or a device, they won't necessarily work together. If you remember the broken mess that was USB1.0, you have a fair idea of what is in store.
The reason for this is simple, and while we told you about it before, it is worth telling again. Intel is sitting on the host spec and not giving it out. Their claim is that they want it 100 per cent done before they give it out, which they will. They don't want people going off half-cocked and making incompatible devices and widgets.
Device end specs are out, and Intel will tell you that anyone who really desperately wants to can reverse engineer the device end spec and make their own Host Bus Adapter (HBA). While true, this is rather pointless because you would end up with a dozen or four HBAs, and every USB3.0 implementation would need a different driver, things would be incompatible, and a general mess ensues.
Intel is trying to claim the high road here. On one hand, they claim they want compatibility, but if you can't wait the six months, you are welcome to make your own incompatible version. They are sharing the HBA spec with some people, but will not share with others, especially if the 'other' competes. This is their prerogative of course, they are doing the engineering, but public statements that are not internally consistent are never a good idea. Then there is the whole concept of an open standard that is not open, see MS for more on that.
Intel is playing power games and daring the industry to go it on their own. This time, the industry did, and it is not just the obvious chipset makers this time. Whispers say it will be a virtual who's who of semiconductor and device makers coming out to support the competing USB3.0 standard.
In the end, we all lose, and USB3.0 is a lost cause. Based on what is coming, hold off and wait for USB3.1. µ
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Through all the greed, anti-competitive and manipulative practices many, many people still happily tongue the a*** of this company and I fail to see why?

They are like those religious freaks that’ll bash the s*** out of you with their holy book rather than listen to the perverted truth.
Flaws or Down Right Swindle. 
Take Upcoming ATSC television switch, One Hundred Billion US $ about to be Wasted for NO purpose. Intel makes chips for TV Remotes, Washer driers?, Toys that Burp, & where did Intel steal technology from? 
I do not know. yet given quality of Engineering, It Must Be From Monkey Island.

Basicly You Can Thank Thomson for glut after glut of BAD product, Well, just about entire Industry is Overblown with inane product.

We are only speaking of actual value of Resistor & size of Capacitor, Nothing too chippy difficult, Except when Money Gets involved. InVole, MicroVoles Siamese buddie.

Also, surely there will be units made to finalize all standards, as one, so if your wrong now, you might get second chance, then again, might not.
drashek
Might gross the EU another billion in fines later on! I wonder what they'll do with it though, pay expensive trips for diplomats I guess?
Is this another one of those: "My light-sabre's bigger than yours, because you've Not been baptised a JEDEC Knight by submission in the better part of a 10 litre box of wine" deals? "Well he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke the same cigarrettes as me.'"
So a triple-decker Universal Serial Bus? With that twirly, she'd be off with the nearest lorry driver she could find.
Please keep us informed about which bus driver will be taking the crew to the launching pad.
The switch to digital TV is not a waste of money. In fact, it will make money because the government will be able to auction off spectrum and companies will be able to use it for wireless telecom and devices... basically making a ton of money. DTV allows for channels that are closer together and some of the lower frequency UHF channels (which travel further than devices using the 1800/1900 band, or even the 850/900 band for that matter.
This is afterall just another way to make money so naturally intel will want to hide it from their competition till they are guaranteed to gain profit from the design.

Oh and Alex just because you dislike religion don't use it as an analogy. Islam is a religion that uses truth to spread rather then just pointing to the Quran and saying with no backing this is the truth. don't flame when you need not to.
That's the least thing anyone needs.
For highspeed Flash- and Harddrives you can use eSATA, so just put more sleeves of 'em on the boards.
And for the crap like printers, mice, keyboards, USB 2.0 is definitely fast enough!
If Intel is dicking off on the whole thing, I say go with the industry and let them create a standard, especially if they create an open standard.
Hi, I work for Intel. For Intel's side of the story, pls read this: http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2008/06/usb_30_for_the_masses_dispelli.php