News source: NetEase Technology Although the USB 3.0 interface has demonstrated obvious speed advantages and is widely expected by users, Intel and AMD chipsets do not plan to provide native support for it in the short term. Steve Peterson, director of marketing for Intel's chipset product line, said bluntly when attending the CeBIT global conference in Hannover, Germany that he believed USB 3.0 would truly become mainstream only when Microsoft's next-generation client operating system Windows 8 becomes popular.
Windows 7 was released at the end of October last year, and its successor was already on the development schedule at that time. According to current general expectations, Windows 8 is expected to be released as early as the end of 2011, but it may also have to wait until 2012. The latter is also in line with Microsoft's product roadmap.
Steve Peterson revealed that Intel is working with Microsoft to ensure that Windows 8 can fully support USB 3.0, but Intel will not be blindly optimistic about the mainstream popularization of new technologies. In the next few years, only high-end PCs will be equipped with USB 3.0 interfaces.
There is also news that Windows 7 SP1 will begin to add support for USB 3.0, but Microsoft has neither denied nor confirmed it. Of course, if it comes true, it will definitely promote the popularity of USB 3.0 to a great extent.
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