USB-IF Certified 75 USB 3.0 Products

At the SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference in Taipei, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) announced the certification of 75 SuperSpeed USB products and multiple company demonstrations of new SuperSpeed USB consumer products, furthering industry momentum for the technology.

Certified SuperSpeed USB products from industry-leading companies are available to consumers worldwide. Additionally, SuperSpeed USB products in new device classes, from display to hubs, are emerging.

“SuperSpeed USB momentum continues to explode, with new products rapidly entering the market, furthering the expansion of the SuperSpeed USB ecosystem,” said Jeff Ravencraft, president and chairman, USB-IF. “Providing our members the opportunity to gather information and insights is a key function of our SuperSpeed USB Developers Conferences. I am pleased to be in Taipei  to share the benefits of SuperSpeed USB with the industry at large.”

“SuperSpeed USB is tracking with IDC’s forecast from last year for its adoption,” said Shane Rau, director of IDC’s Computing and Storage Semiconductors research. “Driven by the need for more and faster data storage capabilities in PCs, we continue to forecast that SuperSpeed USB will ship in 45 percent of mobile PCs in 2012.”

SuperSpeed USB enables new use cases and enhances existing devices due to the incredible transfer speeds that the technology is capable of achieving. The speed supplied by SuperSpeed USB allows technological advancements such as being able to drive two or more displays at full 1080p resolution while simultaneously reading data from external disk drives. The use case, showcased today at the conference, featured a SuperSpeed USB notebook computer reading content from a SuperSpeed USB hard disk drive and simultaneously outputting the video content to two HD displays. In addition, the availability of SuperSpeed USB hubs will enable new device classes, including monitors and printers with SuperSpeed USB hubs incorporated in the devices.