This entire mess happened because consumers usurped the naming convention. The intended marketing term is just "USB-C 5Gbps", "USB-C 20Gbps" and so on. The "Ge

This entire mess happened because consumers usurped the naming convention. The intended marketing term is just "USB-C 5Gbps", "USB-C 20Gbps" and so on. The "GenX" stuff was only ever intended to be an internal technical designation, but journalists who didn't bother to actually read all documents started using that term with the general public.