Finally with Fujitsu Microelectronics announcing the shipment of one of the first available USB 3.0 SATA bridge ICs in the market, the USB 3.0 devices will soon see the light of day. The newest version of USB IC supports SuperSpeed USB, the USB 3.0 specification, and enables data transfer rates of 5Gbps maximum between external storage devices. The new IC, the MB86C30A, is the first in the MB86C30 Series of USB 3.0-SATA bridge ICs, and when embedded in PC peripheral devices, enables over 10-fold faster data transfer rates in comparison to the USB 2.0 specification. In addition to the bridge functionality, the new IC also features a high-speed data encryption/decryption engine, offering high security without impairing the high-speed performance of USB 3.0.

As this IC series enables 5Gbps high-speed data transfer between the PC and external HDDs, for the case of 3.5-HDDs, copying two hours worth of full high-vision video can be reduced from 12 minutes to approximately 3 minutes 30 seconds to 4 minutes in comparison to USB 2.0.

Samples of the new MB86C30A IC are available from today.