Hasta La Gadget!

Such a shame, no? As has become all too common in the uncertain world known as ASUS’ R&D lab, it looks as if yet another promising product has been canned before it ever had a chance to truly live. After the aforementioned company’s P6X58 Premium motherboard set the world ablaze just over a week ago, primarily due to the USB 3.0 sockets shown there on the left, the mainboard has reportedly been canceled for reasons unknown. According to a report over at The Inquirer, an ASUS spokesperson claimed that the mobo had been shelved “not for any particularly interesting reasons,” leaving us to wonder when we’ll ever see a motherboard equipped with that so-called SuperSpeed magic. Our true emotions are captured nicely in the video just past the break.

[Via HotHardware]

Continue reading ASUS kills USB 3.0-laden P6X58 motherboard for reasons unknown

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ASUS kills USB 3.0-laden P6X58 motherboard for reasons unknown originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The NEC USB 3.0 controller is due to hit the streets this month, and already Sarah Sharp (the, um, “Geekess”) has been able to crank out a Linux driver for the device. Sharp states that she is “working with Keve Gabbert (the OSV person in my group at Intel) to make sure that Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Red Hat” pick up the driver, meaning that Linux users will likely be the first to have their Super Speed dreams become a reality. Are you a hardware manufacturer with some hot USB 3.0 controller prototype that wants to out this guy through its paces? Hit that read link to get started.

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Linux gets first driver for USB 3.0 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here you go, the first USB 3.0 cable that we’re aware of has gone on sale over at USBfever. Interestingly, the cable’s feature list says, “it is 10 times faster than USB 2.0.” Sure, as long as it’s hooked up to a USB 3.0 SuperSpeed host which it won’t be until 2010. USBfever: So hot we’re hallucinating.

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USB 3.0 cables go on sale one year early originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We dropped by to get a look at Symwave’s SuperSpeed promised USB 3.0 setup, and got a real earful on the technology and its potential. Due to start shipping in devices near the end of the year, Symwave’s chipset will hold up the device-end of the transaction, communicating with SATA for 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives. Since the host end of USB 3.0’s plug is fully compatible with USB 2.0 (and 1.0, as it turns out), they expect folks to start buying future-proof USB 3.0 hard drives and wait for computer manufacturers to build it in — or just grab a PCIe card if they’re really enthusiastic. With around 10 times the headroom — about 500MB a second — of USB 2.0, the real bottleneck now is hard drive speeds. In the test we saw, the drive averaged around 78MB per second, and we can easily see SSD and RAID scenarios exploring this transfer speed. Their prototype setup to accomplish this was sprawling and a little bit ghetto, but by the time this is shipping in devices the chip will be shrunk down to about the size of a stamp. Action video is after the break.

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SuperSpeed USB 3.0 in action originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So here’s an interesting one. The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) will be pumping up two standards at CES 2009: one with great potential for the future, one that’ll be lucky to survive the rest of this decade. Despite setbacks for Wireless USB, the USB TechZone will be showcasing the latest and greatest in cordless USB, though we suspect we’ll be spending most of our time checking out the progress on SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0). Hit the read link if you’re interested in seeing what involved firms will be taking part, and keep it locked right here for live coverage as the mayhem unfolds in early January.

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Wireless USB / USB 3.0 exhibitors to be out in full force at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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