The USB 3.0 most people are familiar with is technically called USB 3.2 Gen 1 and comes in the regular Type-A connector, but also has variants for Type-B, Type-C, and Micro USB ports.

When USB 3.0 is expected to hit the market in early 2010, it will have been 10 years since the now ubiquitous USB 2.0 was introduced (April 2000).

The USB Implementers Forum did start USB 3.0 as “USB 3.0” back in 2008, but that were back then. Since it were renamed to USB 3.1 Gen 1 back in 2013. But USB IF is really good at names, so ...

USB naming conventions have always been confusing, but perhaps none more so than USB 3.2 Gen 1 and Gen 2. Here's what you need to know about the two standards.

As the dust settled on the USB 3 revisions, the USB-IF made everything needlessly more complicated, though, with USB 3.0 being renamed USB 3.2 Gen 1 (or SuperSpeed USB 5 Gbps), USB 3.1 being ...

The USB PD 3.0 specification introduced the concept of PPS; it offers a range of output voltage—3.3 to 21V—instead of fixed voltages as per USB PD 2.0 specification. The source capabilities of the PPS ...

When it's all said and done, it seems you'll be able to find USB-C ports that are USB4 Version 2.0, USB4 Version 1.0, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 3.2 Gen 1, or USB 2.0, plus some will opt ...

Figure 1. USB 3.0 Physical Layer. In PCI Express, the 100-MHz reference clock (RefClk) is distributed from the host to the device so spread-spectrum clocking (SSC) of 0.5% of the signaling rate ...

For comparison, USB 3.0 delivers speeds of up to 5 Gbps. This has become a problem for professionals, since it takes a long time to transfer 4K ProRes video using the Lightning cable.

Slow USB transfer speeds can be a bit frustrating. The worst part about this problem is that USB 3.0 was made to increase data transfer speed, as its speed is 5 Gbits/s. In this article, we are ...

I tested the most recent DisplayLink driver with an M1 Mac mini running macOS 11.6 Big Sur, with two displays already attached via HDMI and a USB-C-to-HDMI adapter; and with an M1 MacBook Air with ...

According to leaker Majin Bu, who has previously shared details about Apple's new cables, the USB-C cables supplied in iPhone 15 boxes are indeed limited to USB 2.0 data transfer speeds at a rate ...