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To make it less confusing they’ll be moving to the old WiFi style names. The new versions will be called, in order:

USB-A, USB-B, USB-R, USB-CZ, USB-L2, USB-S, then USB-D. To avoid confusion they’ll use the same physical port, which is now Type-C, but renamed Type-1138.

USB-D is somewhat theoretical as we’re likely to go through more renaming by then. But I digress.

It’s important to note each version of the standard supports both active (“o”) and passive (“u”) variants depending on distance.

Power levels are a simple scale of 10^nth milliwatts, expressed as a Roman numeral for readability. So I = 10mw, II = 100mw, etc.

Soon you can buy a highly advanced passive USB cable capable of delivering 10kW to your car for charging.

USB-SuX.




But in the end they'll "restart" it and call it just "USB".


Thanks, I hate it.


Waiting for USB-BSU


Sounds like a knock-off of NTSF:SD:SUV::

(a great show by the way)


when I see that many letters, I just think Law and Order.




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