USB 3 zips along at 450MBps

At this week’s SuperSpeed USB DevCon, the robustness of the freshly-minted production standard for USB 3.0 was shown to onlookers.

While retaining backwards compatibility with the current ecosystem of USB devices, the new specification was demonstrated by moving an uncompressed 30 FPS 1080p stream along at 450MBps. This system is expected to be used in the company’s future HDTV transmission products.

The official USB 3 standard is expected to hit the shelves in equipment by 2010.