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USB 3.2's Horrible New Branding Scheme May Create Confusion For PC Buyers
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|April 2019
USB branding has become even more confusing.
The USB standard has just gotten even more confusing for end users. If you’re one of the three people in the world who actually knew the difference between USB 2.0, USB 3.0, USB 3.1 Gen 1/Gen 2, and so on, ...well, sorry: USB 3.2 has been announced, and all the names change once again.
On the bright side, the USB-IF makes it explicitly clear (go.pcworld.com/ubif; PDF) that the latest USB 3.2 specification provides a whopping 20Gbps of throughput. But that’s about the only thing that’s straightforward, because USB 3.2 sucks up the previous specs and makes them part of its own. The new, horrifically-named spec is “USB 3.2 Gen 2x2.”
It’s hard to sum it all up, but we’ll give it a try.
This story is from the April 2019 edition of PCWorld.
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