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The names are ridiculous: - Low-Speed & Full-Speed - High-Speed - SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps (renamed), original: SuperSpeed (Gen 1) - SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps (rena
by InsomniacL 3y ago
The names are ridiculous:
- Low-Speed & Full-Speed
- High-Speed
- SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps (renamed), original: SuperSpeed (Gen 1)
- SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps (renamed), original: SuperSpeed+ (Gen 2)
- SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps (USB 3.2 Gen 2×2)
- USB4 40Gbps (USB4 Gen 3×2)
- USB4 80Gbps (USB4 Gen 4)
Not to mention
- USB 1.0
- USB 2.0
- USB 3.0
then it changes:
- USB 3.1 Gen 1
- USB 3.1 Gen 2
Then it changes again:
- USB4
Then it changes again:
- USB4 Gen 2
- USB4 Gen 2×2
- USB4 Gen 3
- USB4 Gen 3×2
- lxgr 3y agoI don't know, is this really much more ridiculous than e.g. the various Ethernet standards (I can never remember which one the "normal" Gigabit Ethernet is), mobile data protocols (remember HSDPA, CDMA, 1xRTT and all that?) etc.? And to the USB-IFs credit, they did eventually come around with the much saner bandwidth-focused names. As far as I know, even "SuperSpeed" and "USB 4" are now gone as speed designators; now it's just "USB xGbps", e.g. USB 5GBps for the case of what used to be "USB 3.2 Gen 1x1".
- inputError 3y ago[dead]
- thomastjeffery 3y agoThe good thing here is that they seem to be converging on names that contain the speed itself in plain text. "USB4 40Gbps" is as helpful as a name can get.