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Forget USB 3.2: Thunderbolt 3 Will Become the Basis of USB 4

posted by chromas on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:33AM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:33AM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:33AM (#810115) Journal

    USB 5G, and even 6G.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:48AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @03:48AM (#810123)

    We are going 10G.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @01:31PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 05 2019, @01:31PM (#810230)

      10? mine goes to 11

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday March 06 2019, @01:36AM

    by driverless (4770) on Wednesday March 06 2019, @01:36AM (#810530)

    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.