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Think SuperSpeed USB 3.0's 4.8Gb/s data transfer speed is lightning fast? You're wrong, says NEC. Today it said it had successfully demo'd a serial bus that it believes can hit 16Gb/s. Like USB 3.0, NEC's technology sends data as a stream of binary 1s and 0s. NEC actually demonstrated a chip capable of maintain such a data …

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  1. Gary F

    Yeah, clever boffins!

    So, er, see you in 2016 then for superspeed USB 4.

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  2. ForthIsNotDead
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    Hark!

    You hear that? That's the sound of a patent being filed!

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  3. Eddie Edwards
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    Wrong way round

    The physics is dead simple. The maths is not too bad. The engineering required to make it work is phenomenal.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Pfffft

    Wouldn't make any difference on stupid vista, still get mega slow file transfer rates.

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    1. Greg D
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      FAIL

      mmmmm robocopy

      quit moaning and use robocopy.

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    2. Brian 6
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      @Pfffft

      U dont really believe all the crap that was said about Vista do ya ?

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