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USB best known as Universal Serial Bus, has been a digital lives for quite some time. It has bridged connections in the from flash disks to enormous flash drives and much more. Intel has joined with a couple of IT giants like HP, Microsoft, NEC, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments to boost the speed of the USB  to 10 times and they’ve named it USB 3.0. The new word is Optical, yes the new USB 3.0 uses use optical, along with copper to boost speeds to around 4.8 gigabits per second, which makes it a viable option for networking and even connecting monitors.
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