Thanks to those fancy chips from SMSC we saw back in April, USB MultiSwitch hubs are just around the corner, bringing convenient USB device sharing to your desktop early next year. Now SMSC has a ...

QUICK TAKE:The USB MultiSwitch Hub is a 4-port IC that acts as two independently controllable USB 2.0 hubs in a single package with the ability to electronically reassign and reconfigure any of its ...

Sharing USB devices is about to get a lot simpler thanks to a new hub powered by technology from chip developer SMSC, which will allow two computers to access up to four shared devices without the ...

San Jose, Calif. — Sharing a USB-based peripheral between two computers has traditionally meant unplugging the USB cable from one computer and plugging it into the other, or using an A/B switch that ...

MultiSwitch, the first USB “Hub” that allows two machines to share one USB device, should be available in stores some time in early 2007. Why should this matter to you? Well, with MultiSwitch you can ...

USB 2.0 four-port hub IC is a multiswitch, allowing users to connect and share USB peripherals between two discrete platforms; permits a system connected to a wired or wireless USB hub using the IC to ...