Intel delays USB 3.0

Intel recently made known that it plans to delay its USB 3.0 motherboard chipset until 2012. Now, what the information technology community doesn't understand, is why Intel decided to delay USB 3.0; which was introduced very recently, November 2009, to replace USB 2.0. More surprising is why the world's leading chipmaker would be the last to have USB 3.0 motherboards out in the market as other companies like Gigabytes and Asus already have comparable USB 3.0 motherboards available.

For many reasons, experts believe that Intel decides to delay USB 3.0 so as to give Light Peak an advantage. Light peak has loads of advantages over the USB 3.0 standard. For one, it is three times faster, 10Gbit/s. It can carry several protocols at the same time and also can carry the signal more than 100 meters away.