The announcement of the new Retina MacBook has prompted a flurry of attention to the USB Type C spec, a story we’ve been following since the port was just a gleam in the USB-IF’s eye. It’s not the ...

SuperSpeed USB 3.1 is poised to slowly take over as the newest version of this popular interface. It boosts data-transfer rates to 10 Gbits/s, compared with 5 Gbits/s for USB 3.0. Along with the ...

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group has completed its specification for USB 3.1, paving the way for the faster format. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional.

Another main feature is that the connectors are reversible. This way end users shouldn't be confused with which end of the connector goes to the device and the system. The newer connector is said to ...

USB 3.0 has become a common sight in even low-end PCs, and that's great news. Its 5Gbps theoretical transfer speed is nearly ten times higher than USB 2.0's 480Mbps, but some external storage ...

On the surface, USB 3.1 seems like it could be only an update to 10G speeds. Dig deeper. USB-IF Worldwide Developers Days introduced developers to the new USB 3.1 specification. On the surface, USB ...

After 20 years of continuous improvements in performance and in performance alone - which became dull and, at some point, slowed the transition significantly - USB has become exciting again. Last year ...

January 3, 2017 -- Genesys Logic, Inc., a leading IC design company in mixed-signal, high-speed I/O technologies, today announced its high-performance USB 3.1 Gen 2 USB-C™ integrated SuperSpeed Plus ...

Read part 1 of this series on the basics of transmitter and receiver testing for the latest version of USB and part 3 on power delivery. For all of its virtues around plug-and-play device ...