Exploring Ideas

The story of the Universal Serial Bus begins in the mid-1990s, when computers were crowded with different ports and every device had its own cable, driver, and ritual. In 1995 a group of companies—Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation, International Business Machines, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel—teamed up to design one universal way to connect things. At Intel, engineer Ajay Bhatt led the chipset work that turned the idea into working hardware. Bhatt joined Intel in 1990 as a senior staff architect on the chipset architecture team in Folsom. He holds one hundred and thirty-two U.S. and international patents, and several others are in various stages of filing. Ajay V. Bhatt (born on 6 September 1957, at Bangalore, Karnataka, India) is an Indian-born American computer architect who defined and developed several widely used technologies, including USB (Universal Serial Bus), AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port), PCI Express, Platform Power Management architecture and various chipset impr...