Intel showed off prototype USB 3.0 connectors and an add-in card at Intel Developer Forum Tuesday.

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SAN FRANCISCO--Intel and others plan to release a new version of the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus technology in the first half of 2008, a revamp the chipmaker said will make data transfer rates more than 10 times as fast by adding fiber-optic links alongside the traditional copper wires.

Intel is working fellow USB 3.0 Promoters Group members Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Texas Instruments, NEC and NXP Semiconductors to release the USB 3.0 specification in the first half of 2008, said Pat Gelsinger, general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, in a speech here at the Intel Developer Forum.

In an interview after the speech, Gelsinger said there's typically a one- to two-year lag between the release of the specification and the availability of the technology, so USB 3.0 products should likely arrive in 2009 or 2010. A prototype shown at the speech is working now, and USB 3.0 will have optical and copper connections "from day one," he added.

The current USB 2.0 version has a top data-transfer rate of 480 megabits per second, so a tenfold increase would be 4.8 gigabits per second. Many devices don't need that much capacity, but some can use more, including hard drives, flash card readers and optical drives such as DVD, Blu-ray and HD DVD. The fastest flash card readers today use IEEE 1394 "FireWire" connections that top out at 800 megabits per second.

In addition, USB 3.0 will offer greater energy efficiency, Gelsinger said. It will be backward compatible, so current USB 2.0 devices will be able to plug into USB 3.0 ports.

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• Title: パパとムスメの７日間
• Title (Romaji): Papa to Musume no Nanokakan
• Also known as: Seven Days of a Daddy and a Daughter
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Comedy
• Episodes: 7
• Broadcast network: TBS
• Broadcast period: 2007-Jul-01 to 2007-Aug-12
• Air time: Sunday 21:00
• Theme song: Hoshikuzu Sunset by YUKI

Cast

• Tachi Hiroshi as Kawahara Kyoichiro
• Aragaki Yui as Kawahara Koume
• Kato Shigeaki as Osugi Kenta
• Morita Ayaka as Nakayama Ritsuko
• Yashima Norito as Nakajima Kokai
• Sada Mayumi as Nishino Wakako
• Asou Yumi as Kawahara Rieko
• Sasaki Sumie as Kokueda Hisoka
• Emori Toru as Watanabe Takeshi
• Natsuko as Hirata Saori

Synopsis

This home comedy tells the story of Kyoichiro (Tachi Hiroshi) and his teenage daughter Koume (Aragaki Yui). One day, the two ride a train together after visiting Kyoichiro’s mother-in-law. He sees it as a chance to get to know his daughter better, but he ends up getting more than that - by some mysterious force, both Kyoichiro and Koume end up with their mind in the other’s body! Unfortunately, they have no choice but to swap lives, pretending to be each other at school and work. — Tokyograph

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Episode 01 : Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4
Episode 02 : Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
Episode 03 : Part 1 / Part 2
Episode 04 : Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
Episode 05 : Part 1 / Part 2
Episode 06 : Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
Episode 07 : Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3