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by Dagonfly
1992 days ago
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Yeah, the author accidentally swapped the new names. The rebrandings never changed the "Gen X" part. That's what I don't understand: Why go with both minor versions and the Gen's in a single name?
They could have just retroactively rebranded USB 3.0 to USB3 Gen1, and then went USB3 Gen2, USB3 Gen3 for the 3.1 and 3.2 specs (2×2 is another mess [1]).
Tech people would have understood that the specs are 0-indexed and the marketing names (GenX) are 1-indexed. Consumers would only see the Gen on ports, cables and devices. Still, I don't even understand why hiding the raw speed number from consumers is so important: Short Numbers are always better than vagely similar marketing names:
- USB3 (5Gb)
- USB3 (10Gb)
- USB3 (20Gb)
- USB3 (40Gb) or (2×20Gb)
Done. [1] The final page of this Anandtech article is pretty spot on about Gen2×2:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16133/usb-32-gen-2x2-state-of... |
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