NEC USB 3.0 Host Controllers Ramped up to Full Production Mode

SuperSpeed USB's knight in shining armor is ready to fulfill your high bandwidth peripheral dreams. NEC has announced today that their USB 3.0 host controllers should be in full production by the end of next month. The company is currently producing 1 million of these chips per month and that number will jump to 2 million in the next 30 days or so. Given the lack of enthusiasm by some big names, NEC's expansion is a great win for consumers who will start to see better and faster products hit the market with USB 3.0 chips from NEC at their core.

Unfortunately, the lack of competitors in the market means that companies can sit on their laurels, reselling the same technology and reduce R&D spending. This means higher prices and less variety and choices. The same problem exists in the world of cell phones, device manufacturers have been reticent to upgrade hardware for a long time now. Could this be the year that Moore's law is broken (as it applies to CPU's and bandwidth)? NEC seems set to do just the opposite and will eclipse the rate of production compared to USB 2.0's timeline many times over. They aren't doing this out of the kindness of their hearts, this is obviously a result of increased demand. That means there are new devices and new options that are being created which hopefully points to an end of the technology slump.

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