Intel won't support USB 3.0 until 2011?

It may take a little longer than we first thought for USB 3.0 to really get off the ground. According to a report at EETimes.com, Intel has pushed plans to support USB 3.0 in PC chip sets until 2011, and we may have to wait another year to get our hands on the 10X faster transfer speeds on offer.

The spec for USB 3.0, also known as SuperSpeed USB, was developed by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group - Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments - and completed in November 2008.

Intel is developing its host controller spec in parallel, but separately.

While the first commercially available, certified USB host controller from NEC Electronics has already been announced, Intel's integration of the USB 3.0 host controller in PC chip sets is seen as they key to driving the technology into the mass market.

We've yet to see any confirmation from Intel on this news - please let us know if you have any updates.

We do know that we want our 4.8 Gbit/s ASAP!