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USB 3.2 Update Will Confuse Everybody

February 28, 2019

Who thought only weathermen could screw up and still keep their jobs? Apparently, you can still be employed if you are part of USB-IF too. USB-IF is the group that develops the various USB specifications. According to Ars Technica, it just announced the branding and naming that the new USB 3.2 will use. Frankly, it’s terrible.

Ars Technica summarized it pretty well. “USB 3.0 was straightforward enough. A USB 3.0 connection ran at 5Gb/s, and slower connections were USB 2 or even USB 1.1. The new 5Gb/s data rate was branded "SuperSpeed USB," following USB 2's 480Mb/s "High Speed" and USB 1.1's 12Mb/s "Full Speed." But then USB 3.1 came along and muddied the waters. Its big new feature was doubling the data rate to 10Gb/s. The logical thing would have been to identify existing 5Gb/s devices as "USB 3.0" and new 10Gb/s devices as "USB 3.1." But that's not what the USB-IF did.”

Confused yet?

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