USB-IF president Jeff Ravencraft reportedly stated that he expects the “final specifications to be made public on November 17,” and given that said day will mark the opening of the SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference in San Jose.

The USB 3.0, a next-generation high-speed connection standard due in 2009, is significant because all future PCs and devices will use connectors based on it. The spec is also expected to offer 10 times the speed of USB 2.0–used in virtually all PCs introduced in the last few years–or roughly 5 gigabits per second.