PARIS — Hoping to take advantage of Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports already widely available in a range of consumer appliances, Royal Philips Electronics (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) is rolling out ...

Renesas announced it has released one of the first USB-IF certified USB 3.0 hub controllers. The chip is known as uPD720210 and will be immediately available to device makers for $3.50 per unit.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. today announced the availability of its ANX74xx product family that integrates all the elements needed to implement the new USB-C ...

Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the development of the µPD720115 USB 2.0 hub controller chip, which supports simultaneous USB communication and charging of portable devices such as ...

Looks like there finally is some competition for NEC, and that my friends will drive prices down. Fresco Logic, a global fabless semiconductor company that develops and markets USB 3.0 connectivity ...

Next gen USB is one step closer to reality with the introduction of the first USB 3.0 host controller chip for PCs. The new NEC’s µPD720200 chip is backwards compatible and supports speeds of 5 Gbps. ...

Taiwan-based USB controller design houses are recruiting talent from the memory chip sector as they are gearing up efforts to compete for orders in the growing USB 3.0 controller chip market, ...

ALi Corporation (formerly Acer Laboratories) recently launched its latest high-speed USB 2.0 host-to-host networking controller chip, the M5632. Built with two sets of on-chip USB 2.0 transceivers, ...

Karsten Nohl has updated his BadUSB research, looking at the top eight USB controller chips and determining that about half are susceptible to being maliciously reprogrammed. BadUSB hasn’t gone from ...

First, the good news: that unpatchable security flaw in USB devices first brought to light over the summer affects only about half of the things you plug into your USB port. The bad news is it's ...