1999-10-12 ,
Press Releases From Customers/Partners

480 Mbs Announcement Coincides With Specification Draft Release to Industry

A group of seven PC industry leaders announced today that the target speed of Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 is 40 times faster than the existing USB 1.1. The achievement is anticipated to further build on the momentum of USB into more demanding user applications, such as image creation and interactive gaming.

The target speed of USB 2.0 is 480 Megabits per second (Mbs), as announced by the USB 2.0 Promoter Group, consisting of Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, NEC and Philips. The target speed announcement coincides with the release of the USB 2.0 specification draft to industry developers here. The specification draft enables vendors to begin their product planning and development of USB 2.0 products.

The full text of this backgrounder is available from Intel's website at  http://developer.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/us101299.htm