Thunderbolt hit the scene like a light drizzle. Its announcement by Intel and Apple was met with a slight air of confusion – don’t they remember FireWire? Why, oh why, would a regular user care about an extra half-second on an MP3 transfer? The situations seemed almost too similar to be credible, with a high-performance [...]

Trendnet’s new small form-factor enclosures are hitting the market. Trendnet, a best-in-class wired and wireless networking hardware brand, today announces the availability of the 3.5” USB 3.0 External Enclosure, model TU3-S35, and 2.5” USB 3.0 External Enclosure, model TU3-S25. Save time by storing and transferring content at blazing fast 5Gbps USB 3.0 speeds—10 times faster [...]

NEC Electronics today introduced the world’s first Universal Serial Bus (USB) host controller (part number µPD720200) for the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 standard. NEC Electronics expects rapid adoption of the device and standard as the need to transfer larger and larger amounts of information between PCs to external hard-drives, portable electronics devices, and flash-based thumb [...]