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USB 3.0 has been promoted heavily in recent months, but sales figures so far are not encouraging. According to market researchers In-Stat however this is due to change, very soon.
They are forecasting huge growth in the next year saying that close to 80 million peripherals should ship in the next 12 months with USB 3.0 support. According to their reports, this is thanks to AMD, who are releasing boards that integrate USB 3.0 into core logic chipsets.
Intel should step up soon by integrating USB 3.0 into the IvyBridge chipset next year. In-Stat's Brian O'Rourke said that incorporating USB 3.0 into the core logic chipset is very important to market growth because “It allows notoriously cost-conscious PC OEMs to offer it for free.”
Kitguru says: Are you using a USB 3.0 device regularly? Does your motherboard even support it? share below in the comment section.
I bought a new asus board recently which has 2 USB 3 ports. but I dont have anything to take advantage of them yet. id like a smallish external drive, so I may look at corsairs drives which I hear are good.
We can thank Intel for dragging its feet on USB3.0 and then trying to stuff its proprietary Thunderbolt into our computers.
Intel is always planning something!
Like paying MediaMarkt not to sell computers using competing CPUs.
What a loser company inside.
I think most people will get usb 3.0 only if they are buying a new computer, since most pc’s and laptops now have usb 3.0 build in. The other option is Usb 3 expansion cards.
MonoPaulEEE,
I don’t think Thunderbolt is going to go the distance..