USB 3.0 War Gains Proportions, SIS Joins Team

Written by IT News on 7:42 PM

The war between Intel, AMD and NVIDIA on USB 3,0 specification is a new player on the field, SIS, which joined in the last two in their pursuit of obtaining Intel to unveil specifications. Also, another round veshtae as NVIDIA Intel strikes back of recent statements on the matter. Intel is already four companies against him in this, namely NVIDIA, Advanced Micro Devices, VIA Technologies, and recently joined the SIS.

The group of companies in conflict with Intel announced that things are moving quickly on their part as they are in the process of developing their own "host-controller" specification. "We are moving quickly. We are serving staff that has already internalisation. We have the resources provided by all companies (Nvidia, AMD, Via, and SIS)," said one source of NVIDIA.

In previous blog post, an Intel spokesman said that Intel not yet reached the state in the development of USB 3,0, that will allow the company to publicly release the specification. Intel also said that the company has invested a large sum of money and work hours in the development of the specification, but that it will offer free of other producers. According to official position, other companies should be grateful to him for free, instead of whining about Intel's approach to the situation.

Fearing, that Intel will receive a significant advantage during the drafting of USB 3,0 itself - it will take somewhere between six to nine months -, NVIDIA, while others say they will be forced to come up with its own Intel specification Unless they agree to release their own in time, which would mean the right for now. "Effective, will achieve what happens as it plays in the rest of us started later. But although we have developed to host controller Intel spec, we can not interpret it in the same way as Intel, it is fulfilled. "

Intel says that those specification not enough to be released in the short term, but promised that they would make public announcement at the right time. However, there may be other part of Intel, and actions. As the company develops in the specification of all by itself, a USB 3,0 will be exactly what Intel wants to be. Thus, in order to avoid any compatibility issues, other producers will have to conform exactly to its specifications.

According to NVIDIA, for delays created by this situation would be inevitable. "Up to now they have become de facto standard and we have a choice but to return and respin (recast) Chip, who then added another nine months," says NVIDIA. "Effective, Intel is building two years of the green box - the market where they are the sole supplier and they can charge whatever they want for their chipsets."

"Intel is investing seriously (think gazillions of dollars and bazillions of engineering man-hours) in funds for the creation of a host controller Intel spec in order to accelerate time to market a USB 3,0 technology. I think they are increased resources and time required to get to mature spec, "said a source of NVIDIA, concluded saying.

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