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Update Gigabyte confirmed Intel's USB 3.0 chipset will be delayed until 2012. There's no reason given. It claims to have shipped one million USB 3.0 boards already. Other USB 3.0 chips are coming on the market, cheaper than NEC's.
There are some very unhappy vendors here in Old Taipei these days and it's the chip giant Intel that they're blaming.
A large number of the local manufacturers are launching USB3.0 peripherals in the halls of the Computex show but they have a bit of a problem.
The first problem is that there are only a few motherboards that support USB 3.0 - Asus has plenty, Gigabyte has quite a few, and so does Asrock.
But Intel is unlikely to release a chipset capable of supporting USB 3.0 until the end of this year, and that's creating such frustration amongst some of the manufacturers that they're contemplating taking matters into their own hands and attempt to put together some kind of standard that will cover most eventualities.
If, for example, you're the maker of a case you need to be in a position to be sure just where the gubbins in the case is going to go and what it's going to do.
The uncertainty has one certainty to it at least. It's going to cost quite a few peripheral and case makers a lot of grief which translates, here in Old Taipei, to money.
Here's an idea, Intel: harness that human brain waves to create blewdy chipsets, already.
These Tick-Tock clock watchers are too busy skiving for shares. You are not very nice being, now are you, Intel?
While the giant slumbering
Lord of the Chipsets,
frets on about who should be in the "buddy club", we join their program already in wee progress:
HORATIO: Is it a custom?
HAMLET: Ay, marry, is't:
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manor born, it is a custom
More honour'd in the breaches than the observance
Scene "S-o-r-r-y!"
"If you told people 20 years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time, they would have said, ‘I don’t want that. I don’t need that.’ Now you can’t get them to stop [carrying devices]..."
Cancel all my calls__ I can't be arsed to put old wine in new skins, afore they be bursting on the Ivy Bridge that led down the primrose path! But can I buy your Magic Bus? Nooooooooo! I don't care how much I pay (Too much, the Magic Bus) I want it, I want it, I want it...(You can't have it!)
While he plundered in sofar and wide
All his starving children cried
And though we sung his fame
We all went hungry just the same
He meant to shine
To the end of the line