USB was started by Intel, but when USB 3.0 came along, Intel didn’t actually hug it. Odd balls, but Intel actually went and create a new baby called Light Peak, which is now known as the mighty Thunderbolt. Everyone’s been leaping into the USB 3.0 bandwagon the natural way, except for Intel which still refuses to support USB 3.0 natively like how they pushed USB 2.0. So there’s no hope anymore? Well not really.

“Intel fully supports USB 3 and plans to integrate it in the future,” said Jason Ziller from Intel. But that’s all that he said. When will this actually arrive, Ivy Bridge? Considering how Intel has been refuting the support for USB 3.0 and many manufacturers of peripherals still not going full blast with USB 3.0, Intel might be waiting until Thunderbolt actually matures with a pile of peripherals, then they might consider having USB 3.0. Who knows?

SOURCE via Engadget