Cypress EZ-USB GX3 Controller Delivers Near-Gigabit Speed Over USB 3.0

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With an integrated GigE MAC and PHY, the GX3 controller is designed to handle up to Gigabit Ethernet speeds over USB 3.0.

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[knowom]

gigabit isn't even fast now a days if this was close to 10 gigabit it would exciting hell if that later point would just come down in price significantly to the affordable sub $50 range it would be quite major

 

[jasonelmore]

yeah gigabit speed is 5x slower than USB 3.0 to put it in perspective.

the industry needs to push for faster networking standards.

Gigabit speed is only 100 MB/s. try streaming 4k with only 100 MB a second.. its not good and is only on par with Blu Ray 1080p..

but this is not amped wireless's fault, just the industry in general and intel.

 

[Daniel Ladishew]

yeah gigabit speed is 5x slower than USB 3.0 to put it in perspective.

the industry needs to push for faster networking standards.

Gigabit speed is only 100 MB/s. try streaming 4k with only 100 MB a second.. its not good and is only on par with Blu Ray 1080p..

but this is not amped wireless's fault, just the industry in general and intel.

The purpose of this controller isn't to provide new and exciting speeds, but to provide a comparable internet connection for devices that don't/won't have a form factor allowing for a full ethernet port. Think phones, tablets, and netbooks. This chip helps the USB standard along the path of becoming the "one cable to rule them all."

 

[digitalgriffin]

yeah gigabit speed is 5x slower than USB 3.0 to put it in perspective.

the industry needs to push for faster networking standards.

Gigabit speed is only 100 MB/s. try streaming 4k with only 100 MB a second.. its not good and is only on par with Blu Ray 1080p..

but this is not amped wireless's fault, just the industry in general and intel.

A man with that much serious hardware, as yourself, has more money then computer brains apparently.

You only need 20Mbps for 4K video with typical HEVC / VP9 codecs. You have plenty of bandwidth to spare on a 1 Gigabit connection. Even 4K Bluray is capped at 100Mbps.

 

[rwinches]

So it's an adapter from USB C to RJ 45 for systems that are too thin to allow an RJ 45 connector. Cool.

 

[bit_user]

I hate that this is even necessary. USB 3 should have addressed this problem in the standard.

Note that this adapter will not work without proprietary drivers. And if there's a bug in the drivers, or it doesn't work for whatever linux kernel you're running, too bad.