USB 3.2 Specification Published and Announced
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yeeeman
This is getting annoying already. I hate what industry does nowadays by moving at such a fast pace that even consumers cannot keep up.
Why they don't just release USB 4.0 with 1Tbps, with 1KW of power and call it a day for the next 10 years? They like to create one million revisions and release them once a week, like somebody would care.
I know that shareholders are crazy for more money and that new stuff drives the market and the sales in general, but come on! Take a vacation, enjoy some wine and live the life. Computers from 5 years ago are still very much ok and USB 3.0 is still plenty enough for pretty much everything you could possibly need.
Emille
Usb specs are becoming insane.
I only recently learned there was gen 1 and gen 2 3.1.
Why can't they just make a motherboard with 6x 3.2 slots and 6x 3.2 type c slots....or is type c going to become one of those jokes where is was one of those standards no one adopted.
Most motherboards I have seen have 1x type c slot....why even bother.
lucidus
That lonely USB-C port is enough for Apple's Earpods lol.
MainFrame Alpha
this is what technology dose, it moves forward, stop nagging and and be thankful for backward compatibility.
BlueRay
Seems like USB doesn't feel "Universal" anymore. It's a huge fragmented mess. Different protocols and different connectors at the same time.
They have to settle down and let people adopt it. USB-C should've been the new standard connector it's been a while now since it was released but still no more than 1 Type-C connector on new motherboards. No front panel C towers either. This doesn't help adoption. It's a mess.
Emille
How is having not implemented new specs moving forward....
Motherboards still have pointless 2.0 slots, usb 3.0 only, a few gen 1 3.1 slots and a single type c connector.
That would be like calling the current existence of 16k displays 'moving forward' when no one even has access to them, let alone could afford them.
It will move forward when the legacy garbage doesn't comprise 80% of all usb slots on a motherboard.
fry178
@yeeeman
Lol. Cause they forced you at gun point to buy it, right?
Usb 3.0 is enough for most, including me even with a ssd as external backup.
Raider0001
USB 3.2 ? Intel is like: Z470 Chipset coming UP!
DLD
Think I'll wait for 3.3.10059. That revision will be found on the Intel chipset Z470.9 based mobos... Though I can BARELY wait, that's how impressed I am with the advancement of USB specs....
RzrTrek
I've got a USB3.1 and USB-C connection, none of which is being used and I honestly don't see any reason to jump on the USB-C hype train.
Kaarme
USB3 was much needed as USB2 was too slow for external HDs and was also holding back flash drives. After that I didn't really care anymore, but I have to say the Type-C connector is quite nice for a phone as there's no need to check the orientation.
DLD
But, of course - we are saved from extinction now that we do not have to worry about "orientation". Because, lo and behold, disorientation of such magnitude could have lead us to unimaginable disasters, compared to (but not limited to) Irma, El Niño and alike...
Ouch! Something is missing here, in the new specs: whatever happened to RGB decoration?! I want every pin to be equipped with LED of a different color!;)
Emille
I didn't even know sarcasm of this magnitude was even possible.
Agent-A01
Lots of typo errors in this article.
Thought you might want to know.
SilAntoine
Meanwhile PS/2 ports are still alive and well! 😀
bensmooth
Is thunderbolt still faster reason i ask is because theres been so many usb port updates over the past 2 years im trying to keep up myself lol
Ricepudding
Have we got to the stage now where we might as well use USB instead of Sata? XD
Why why why has Sata not been increased in so long >.> might as well use USB or thunderbolt for SSD's since Sata bottlenecks them.... 2500 MB/s comes close to m.2 slot speeds XD
Mufflore
No, because latency.
DLD
@thatguy91
Exactly, but, alas!, only from the logic's point of view. Which is not a point of the greedy bastards called companies - they profit more by cutting the bread into thinner slices, pouring milk into the smaller cups and selling "refreshed"/"refurbished" ideas and solutions every now and then...
Kaarme
Now? Sorry, buddy, but I'm so old that most of my phones had a round power plug that had all the orientation demands of a round plug, which is none on the significant axis. Then came the micro-usb and you always had to check. Type-C is a single step back towards the original situation. Like I said, after the much needed speed increase introduced by usb3 (maybe you are so young you were never experienced the slooooooow speed of usb2), this was the only usb change that was worth noticing for me.
