HighPoint is a company in the United States that designs and develops RAID ICs, RAID host adapters, host bus adapters, and storage peripherals. Many well-known brand motherboards and PC equipment manufacturers such as HP, Apple, and Sun Microsystems are using it.
January 16, 2018, HighPoint released the second generation USB 3.1 expansion card - RocketU 1344A.
With four USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports, the RocketU 1344A expansion card provides up to 10Gbps of bandwidth per USB 3.1 interface and does not result in a reduction in interface bandwidth even when four ports are full.
The RocketU 1344A expansion card uses a PCI-E 3.0 x4 interface and the bridge is a PCI-E Gen 3.0 bridge chip for PLX. In addition, the expansion card is equipped with two USB 3.1 controllers from ASMedia, and two USB 3.1 interfaces share an ASMedia control Each controller can provide 20Gbps bandwidth.
HighPoint company temporarily did not disclose the price of this product and the specific launch date.
