It's September so that can mean only one thing in Intel land: IDF. The second of this year's
Intel Developer Forums is this year preceded by speculation that the big blue giant's next motherboard reference design -- codenamed
Cougar Point -- will include USB 3.0 support. Intel's relationship with the 3.0 interconnect standard can at best be described as
strained, but motherboard and laptop makers haven't shied from integrating it into their wares and as the number of devices supporting SuperSpeed increases, it's becoming somewhat inevitable that Intel would have to play ball as well. At least until
Light Peak shines its "instant obsolescence" ray onto USB cables
next year. Then again, bear in mind China's
Commercial Times has been wrong before, so let's not credit this as fact until someone
with a blue name badge tells us so.
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