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USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 isn't even my final form:
Fulfilling its 2017 promise to make Thunderbolt 3 royalty-free, Intel has given the specification for its high-speed interconnect to the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the industry group that develops the USB specification. The USB-IF has taken the spec and will use it to form the basis of USB4, the next iteration of USB following USB 3.2.
Thunderbolt 3 not only doubles the bandwidth of USB 3.2 Gen 2×2, going from 20Gb/s to 40Gb/s, it also enables the use of multiple data and display protocols simultaneously. We would expect the USB4 specification to be essentially a superset of the Thunderbolt 3 and USB 3.2 specifications, thus incorporating both the traditional USB family of protocols (up to and including the USB 3.2 Gen 2×2) and the Thunderbolt 3 protocol in a single document. Down the line, this should translate into USB4 controllers that support the whole range of speeds.
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Also at AnandTech, The Verge, and Engadget.
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:33AM (3 children)
USB 5G, and even 6G.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:48AM (1 child)
We are going 10G.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @01:31PM
10? mine goes to 11
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday March 06 2019, @01:36AM
I don't really care about 5G or 6G or 20G or 150TB/s, for anything like that I'll use mSATA/M2/whatever or ethernet and not some serial port on steroids. What I really want in USB is a single connector and the ability to plug A into B and it'll just work. I'd actually go back to 12Mbps USB just to have the ability to plug things in and have them work without having to piss around with drivers and cables and different settings and adapters and converters and hubs and then half the time it still doesn't work.
In other words, to the USB consortium, concentrate on making what you've already got actually work properly before you start wanking around with USB 3.2.4.1 revision 2 patchlevel 4 with mustand and anchovies.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Apparition on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:38AM (4 children)
Basing a whole new USB standard on Thunderbolt 3... What could possibly [soylentnews.org] go [lightbluetouchpaper.org] wrong [thunderclap.io]?
(Score: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday March 05 2019, @05:18AM (1 child)
I have a bad feeling about this, and I am not even Han Solo!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @10:40AM
Right. You're Greek Soylo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @05:42AM
Will this make it easier to jailbreak future iPhones? (When they switch to USB C)
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday March 05 2019, @07:05AM
That's not a bug, that's a feature.
I mean, look, you really like FBI to waste you tax money on Cellebrite instead of buying them cables straight from ebay [soylentnews.org] at Chinese prices?
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Funny) by Booga1 on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:45AM (4 children)
The new designation will be "USB 4.0 gen 1x40" SuperHyper USB Totally Not Thunderbolt Stop Calling It That Speed.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Mykl on Tuesday March 05 2019, @05:15AM
Championship Edition
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @06:27AM
Lightning USb External Root
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @08:28AM (1 child)
Now with added blockchain!
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday March 05 2019, @07:58PM
with blackjack. And hookers!
This sig for rent.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:45AM
Let's go back to Rs232, at least we know the god damn things can transmit/receive.
"Universal", they said. Uni-fucking-versal.
Fuck.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RandomFactor on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:50AM
when Benson Leung [google.com] started testing USB C cables, now we'll have a whole new crop of equipment destroying shortcuts manufacturers can take.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:54AM (1 child)
Isn't Thunderbolt basically PCI, with all the DMA transfer capabilities to run behind the CPU's back? Is iommu isolation going to be mandatory part of the spec?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @08:36AM
Yes.
Of course not. The Feds, KGB, Mossad, the mob, every blackhat and neighborhood prankster absolutely requires unfettered plug'n'play access to all your hardware...
For the uninitiated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday March 05 2019, @05:24AM (1 child)
USB4 is not, and is in no way related to, USB 4.0. Yes,versioning conventions suck, which is always true, but more when they are used to lie through the teeth of tech companies, like Intel, or Motorola, or Samsung, or Peter Thiel. 4g, anyone? Does anyone actually have 4g? Not the 4g that is 4g-lte, which is only 3g, with some fixes. So 40 gps, eh? On "compliant" hardware"? As in "proprietary compliant hardware"! Shit! This is HDMI and Blu-ray all over again! Not a standard! Reject! Will not accept! No Apple machines! Exterminate! Exterminate!! (Well, that degenerated quickly!)
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @08:28AM
"well, that degenerated quickly!"
being so old, I thought you'd gotten used to yourself by now.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @08:31AM (2 children)
usb 33 1/3
usb 45
usb 78
(Score: 2) by AndyTheAbsurd on Tuesday March 05 2019, @02:46PM (1 child)
Hey! I got that reference!
Please note my username before responding. You may have been trolled.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday March 05 2019, @06:51PM
But 78's were not even vinyl! It is where we get the "breakage" fee taken out of artist's royalties, even for vinyl, CDs, and Mp3s.