Posted on Monday, January 05 2009 @ 17:27 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Symwave announced it cooperated with Seagate to demonstrate the Symwave USB 3.0 storage controller device in a Seagate FreeAgent storage device at CES 2009 this week:
Symwave, Inc., a semiconductor supplier of high performance
analog/mixed-signal connectivity solutions for the PC, consumer and mobile
devices, today announced collaboration with Seagate to demonstrate Symwave’s USB 3.0
storage controller device designed to comply with the Superspeed (USB 3.0) specification
revision 1.0. The technology demonstration is the world’s first consumer product application of
USB 3.0 and will take place at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las
Vegas, Nevada from January 8-11, 2009. The demonstration will showcase streaming data to
and from a commercially available external storage device at speeds previously unattainable
with legacy USB technology.
Seagate’s award-winning FreeAgent® family of external storage solutions will be used to
demonstrate the read-and-write transfer speeds of USB 3.0. Seagate was selected for this
display of technology due to the company’s industry leadership position and reputation for
maintaining a high-level of technological innovation.
The USB 3.0 specification is a rapidly emerging technology that enables high-speed
connectivity between consumer devices at up to 10 times faster than current solutions. It is
backwards compatible with the more than 10 billion USB devices shipped to date. Only seven
weeks ago, Symwave announced the world’s first USB 3.0 physical layer device (PHY) at the
same time as the first public release of the Revision 1.0 Specification at the SuperSpeed USB
Developers Conference.
