News USB4 announced, will double data transfer speed

[Becky]

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USB4 announced, will double data transfer speed - The next generation USB architecture will support up to 40Gbps

The USB Promoter Group have announced that the specification of USB4 is now ready and pending release. It will double the bandwidth of USB compared with USB 3.2, and will enable multiple data and display protocols to happen simultaneously.

The new specification is based on the Thunderbolt 3 hardware interface, which was developed by Intel in conjunction with Apple. Intel have...

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[Abraham Andres Luna]

Wow, transferring 5 gigabytes per second is insane speed.

 

[walkerpu]

40 Gbps?? Really... That would be awesome.

 

[Becky]

Yeah it'll be great! Roll on 2020...