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by AprilArcus 960 days ago
Cable has a nice little "3.0" logo embossed, but don't those fools at Elgato know that it's called USB "3.2 Gen 1x1" now?
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No, the consumer-facing name is “SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps”.

Gen 1x2 has been deprecated as far as I understand, so there is no more ambiguity when just referring to modes by their maximum data rate.

USB 4 would make this even more complicated, but they fortunately have decided that 3x1 (20 Gbps just like 2x2) also does not get a marketing designation, so there’s also no more ambiguity there.

"Gen 1x2" wasn't deprecated because as a marketing term it was never a thing to begin with. And they recently dropped the whole "SuperSpeed" part so now it's just "USB 5Gbps".