We now have a detailed block diagram that shows off the new chipset ... For everything else, it is much the same with the same number of 10 USB 3.0 and 14 2.0 ports with 6 SATA ports for storage.

The system supports four USB 2.0 ports, four USB 3.0 and two USB ... Some interesting things can be read from the block diagram otherwise, like the name of the chipset being Valhalla, lol.

Intel on its website has published a page on the Z390 chipset, including a chipset block diagram showing all connections ... Some differences are spotted though, USB is configured at six 10 ...

Figure 1. USB Block Diagram Now, the USB standard is set to solve another issue for embedded systems: the exponential growth in data rates. Five years ago, a data rate of 10 Mbps was considered high.