USB 3 due from about 2009 on
Amongst it's many other capabilities it should utterly transform data =

transfer rates to/from Flash memory cards.

        http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3DB=
UHGCG0JZFOCYQSNDLRSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=3D201807389&printable=3Dtrue

    "SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. =97 Intel Corp. announced it is working with =

a handful of companies on a specification that could push the USB's =

theoretical throughput beyond 4 Gbits/second, ten times its current =

rate. The USB 3.0 spec aims to deliver 300 Mbytes/second of usable =

data at the applications level and add new quality of service =

capabilities that could challenge the 1394 interconnect also known as =

Firewire.  ...

much more.

        Russell

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