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Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB 4 2.0 | Faster USB4 devices could start appearing in 2024 (www.techspot.com)

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Windows 11 now supports USB4 at 80Gbps, also known as USB 4 2.0 | Faster USB4 devices could start appearing in 2024::undefined

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[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 139 points 8 months ago (6 children)

“USB 4 2.0”… someone should really do something about the incredibly goofy naming scheme.

[–] herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 69 points 8 months ago (2 children)

With a version number like that they should have throttled the throughput to 69 Gbps.

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Oh damn, I didn’t even catch that!

[–] f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

1985Mbps/1.21GW

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 24 points 8 months ago

Someone was high.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I never bothered to check, but are there multiple organizations making different names? Or just one that has no consistency whatsoever

[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They name by committee. So every corporation that is in the USB standards group will argue for whatever benefits them, with no consideration for consumers.

I fucking hate it. Buy a USB C cable and it's a crapshoot whether it's USB 2 with no power delivery, or poor quality with power delivery. Just trying to find a good quality USB 3 cable is difficult, with 3.1 or 3.2, x2 or not, shitty control chips, etc etc.

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It is absolutely infuriating. It blows my mind that you can have a USB 3.2 Gen2 cable that does everything you need it to, except for the fact that it doesn’t support Power Delivery and a lot of the time you won’t even know, so if you’re sending high wattage through it there’s a real possibility you’re gonna burn some to kind up.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

In theory, compliant devices can detect the voltage drop over shitty cables and request a lower charging rate.

[–] BorgDrone@lemmy.one 0 points 8 months ago

if you’re sending high wattage through it there’s a real possibility you’re gonna burn some to kind up.

Anything over 3A or 60W requires the cable to have an e-marker. A little chip inside one of the connectors that indicates what the cable is capable of. No USB certified device should try to pull 60W or more through a cable without e-marker or anything above what the cable can handle if it does have a marker.

[–] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So universal

[–] gashead76@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I know, it is a never ending source of minor comedy that “Universal” is right there in the name.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Dammit elon. The 420 ‘jokes’ aren’t as funny as you think they are. /s.

[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

It's like they just throw darts and see what hits