> There were 42 million transistors in a Pentium 4 USB 1.1 was in '96 That's Pentium 1 era. Pentium 2 was released year after. Pentium 1 had one tenth of that

> There were 42 million transistors in a Pentium 4 USB 1.1 was in '96 That's Pentium 1 era. Pentium 2 was released year after. Pentium 1 had one tenth of that > When USB came out we already had some very crude 3D realtime rendering already at that time available to mass consumers, I'm sure we could have figured out how to flip power on a port if we put our minds to it. Why your six neuron brain can't imagine saving pennies on chips used in cheap computer peripherals?