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The Intel Developers' Forum kicks off this week in San Francisco and runs from September 22nd to 24th, and with it comes some very exciting news.

It's rumored (well ok, it's been officially announced) that there will be several USB 3.0-capable devices making their debut at the show.  This new Universal Serial Bus (USB) technology is much anticipated due to the dramatic increase in connectivity speed it promises to deliver. 

In USB 2.0 connections, which have become the standard in all computers and devices connecting via USB, the average data transfer speed is somewhere between 25-35 Megabytes per second (Mbps).  The new USB 3.0 protocol, dubbed "SuperSpeed USB", has data tranfer speeds of up to 250 Megabytes per second - a factor of 10 faster! 

On display at the forum will be a solid state drive (SSD) from LucidPort Technology, a video camera from we-don't-know-who, and a laptop made by Fujitsu. 

It should be noted that the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 techology is completely backward-compatible with all USB 2.0 devices.  Commercial availability of USB 3.0 is expected by the 2009 holiday season, but we don't expect to see wide availability of these devices until well into 2010 - because, well, you know how things can go.