[Thomaschaaf]

Why do they keep making the cables shorter? 0.8m seems very impractical for applications like charging a phone.

[sohkamyung]

The reason for that is stated in the post:

> Gen 1 cables can be 2M long, while Gen 3 cables can be 0.8m. This is just a practical consequence of physics and signal integrity when it comes to passive cables.

[rhinoceraptor]

You wouldn't need the highest bandwidth cable just to charge (although it would work), you'd need it for external GPUs or large disk arrays.

[colejohnson66]

Attenuation?

[eigenloss]

no, dispersion.