Intel´s Pat ´Kicking´ Gelsinger, the company´s desktop products group VP, will today unveil the long-awaited final spec for USB 2.0 at WinHEC.

USB 2.0 takes the bus´ data throughput up to and beyond IEEE 1394 standards. 1394 currently runs at 400Mbps - USB 2.0 will run at 480Mbps, forty times greater than USB 1.1´s 12Mbps. USB 2.0 hubs will support version 1.1 peripherals, but not vice versa.

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