USB 3.0 is dragged by chipset

In-Stat, a prominent market research agency, issued a report today that the popularity of the USB 3.0 interface failed to achieve the expected level this year due to the lack of native support for the chipset, but the outlook is still bright, and it is expected to reach the current level of 12 after four years. Times.

According to data provided by In-Stat, global shipments of USB 3.0 interface devices were close to 14 million in 2010, which is lower than the industry's forecast. However, by 2014, it will surge by more than 1.7 billion, basically completing the popularity.

Brian O'Rourke, Principal Analyst at In-Stat, commented: “The USB 3.0 devices started to ship in small scale at the end of 2009. In 2010, they were shipped in notebooks, desktops, risers, built-in and external hard drives, and USB flash drives. The volume has increased significantly.Overall, USB 3.0 is gradually spreading.The large-scale promotion is still subject to the integrated support of the PC chipset, otherwise PC OEMs can provide USB 3.0 for free, thus stimulating their peripherals in PC, consumer electronics, mobile Popularity in equipment."

Other In-Stat research data include:

- In 2014, shipments of USB 3.0 interface set-top boxes will approach 7 million units.

- In 2014, shipments of digital TVs with USB 3.0 interfaces will approach 200 million units.

- In 2014, the USB 3.0 interface will have a 40% penetration rate in portable digital media players.

- In 2014, shipments of USB 3.0 interface U-disks will reach 225 million units, with a compound annual growth rate of 791.8% from 2009 to 2014.

- In 2009, the total number of USB interface devices exceeded 3 billion, and in 2012 it was close to 4 billion.