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Hoping to forge a de facto standard, Intel Corp. will license its USB 2.0 enhanced host controller specification -- the interface between the host controller and its software driver -- on a royalty-free basis.
Unwilling to revisit the confusion surrounding Universal Serial Bus 1.0's multiple host controller interface specifications, Intel developed the new specification in conjunction with NEC, Philips, Lucent, Microsoft, and Compaq.
"On the second version of USB, we looked at how we could learn from the first round, and we decided that it was better for the industry for there to be one specification that was available to everybody," Jason Ziller, an Intel technology initiatives manager, said...
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