USB4 Specification Announced: Adopting Thunderbolt 3 Protocol for 40 Gbps USB
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#2Will it be possible to connect a Thunderbolt 3 Macbook or Intel Ice Lake PC via USB-C cable to a USB 4.0 device and obtain 40Gbps throughput?
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#3Ars Technica just wrote an article about the confusing names of USB versions https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/02/usb-3-2-is-going-to-... and now they have another one about this name. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/thunderbolt-3-become...
Re: USB4 Specification Announced: Adopting Thunderbolt 3 Protocol for 40 Gbps USB
#4Not USB 3.2 Gen 2x2x2?? Come on, consistency people!
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#5I’d love to ditch HDMI (even on my television!)
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#6As someone who knows next to nothing about how USB actually works and just uses it, what goes into making each USB generation faster?
At the physical layer, is it the materials in the cables are getting better? Or new ways of using the same materials?
At the protocol layer, is it newly developed computer science theory being applied or is it just old fashioned pragmatic engineering iteration, looking at usage and making the existing protocols more efficient with tricks and shortcuts etc?
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#7Not USB 3.2 Gen 2x2x2?? Come on, consistency people!
It ought to be USB 3.3 Gen 2x2x2, and USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 will be retroactively updated to USB 3.3 Gen 2x2 because everything is always the newest version of USB.
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#8Here's an idea, let's make different connector shapes depending on the cable/connector's capabilities, lets do one for connectors that support display, one for power, one for thunderbolt, that way they're easy for the average consumer to identify!
Oh wait that's the issue USB was supposed to solve in the first place....
Re: USB4 Specification Announced: Adopting Thunderbolt 3 Protocol for 40 Gbps USB
#9Does this also mean that soon every computer will be making noise/radiating waves around 40GHz? Can someone with more depth in this area shine some light on this?