The USB 3.0 specification allows raw data rates of 5 Gbps.

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Safeguards built into the "local storage" specification should limit how much data can be stored.

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When it is finished in the second half of this year, the specification is expected to deliver data rates of 10Mbps for home phoneline networking and also to be backward-compatible and interoperate with existing HomePNA 1Mbps technology.

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Other changes in the specification will allow better guesses at data flow and lower latency storage devices.

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The current toggle DDR 1.0 specification applies a DDR interface to conventional single data rate (SDR) NAND architecture.

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An API is a specification of the dialect that computer programs or their components use to exchange data with each other or with the hardware they are running on.

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The USB Forum announced that a new specification for USB 3.0 to be announced in June would allow up to 10 Gbps native data rate (twice the current 5 Gbps data rate).

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