Intel prepping Cougar Point motherboard with USB 3.0?

Posted on Monday, September 06 2010 @ 13:25 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Asian sources claim Intel will reveal a Cougar Point motherboard reference design with a USB 3.0 host controller at next week's IDF 2010 in San Francisco.

As AMD is already preparing to integrate USB 3.0 into its future chipset designs, Intel is expected to announce the addition of a USB 3.0 host controller into its Cougar Point motherboard reference design at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2010 in the US, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

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