USB 3.0 ‘comes closer to reality’ with NEC’s host controller

Now, the NEC's new host controller, clears the arrival of the new USB 3.0 standard. The host controller is a chip which connects the host system such as a PC to external storage, peripherals or other systems, and NEC's new host controller (µPD720200) is based on the SuperSpeed USB standard which was finalized in November of 2008, more than eight years after the USB 2.0 spec was released.