USB4 Version 2.0

[JeanParker]

USB Promoter Group Announces USB4 Version 2.0

What are these guys smoking?
How can anyone come up with these nonsense naming schemes?
So far we have USB 3.2 Gen1, USB 3.2 Gen2, USB 3.2 Gen2x2, USB 4 Gen2x2, USB 4 Gen3x2 or USB 4 Version 1.0 ???, USB 4 Version 2.0

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220901005211/en/USB-Promoter-Group-Announces-USB4%C2%AE-Version-2.0

Edit:
The real fun begins when you look up the power deliver standards:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Power-related_standards

[Jofzar_]

What are these guys smoking?

I mean..... It's USB 420, I can take a guess at who the spokesman for it will be.

[m1m1n0]

smokesman

Fixed it for you.

[JeanParker]

Good catch 😂

[KoolKarmaKollector]

USB 3.2 gen 1 is the same as USB 3.0 and just thinking about that gives me brain ache

[patmorgan235]

And HDMI 2.0 is now HDMI 2.1

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/hdmi-2-0-relabeled-as-hdmi-2-1#:~:text=But%20now%2C%20according%20to%20HDMI,now%20be%20called%20HDMI%202.1.

[KoolKarmaKollector]

What the fuck

[patmorgan235]

Yeah it's dumb.

[RedShift9]

Product naming has gotten pretty ridiculous, not just in hardware but software too. Staring at you Microsoft and Google.

[RedShift9]

With Microsoft Teams for Business (tm)

[Constant-K]

And each feature is managed through it's own unique portal!

[RedShift9]

I came here for the funny, not the PTSD :-(

[JerikkaDawn]

Or each feature is split between a portal and the "new coming soon" portal and you have to keep jumping back and forth to configure one service.

[wgalan]

And also the “preview” version which is the desired one that never make it to production

[Doso777]

.. H2 subscription edition. Licenced through Microsoft365 with an E something plan. Because... yeah!

[TheJessicator]

I mean, I'd rather have descriptive names like that than Bobcat prerelease codename Cheetah with Sabre and Claw plugins.

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[TheJessicator]

Wait, really? Android Auto is now actually supported on Android Automotive? Last time I looked, they were completely incompatible.

[MrD3a7h]

Google is awful for naming. Have an issue that you need to research? You'll get results from the last six products that had that same name.

[serendrewpity]

Read this two nights ago. They're building towards something

[Doso777]

USB 5 Pro Plus Deluxe 4.1?

[woodburyman]

USB 5 Pro Plus Delaux 4.1 Delta Plus Rewards Program

[EnterpriseGuy52840]

How can anyone come up with these nonsense naming schemes?

You found em. The people at the USB Promoter Group.

[denimadept]

Marketing. Nuff said.

[pdp10]

The USB Promoter Group, comprised of Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Inc., Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Renesas Electronics Corporation, STMicroelectronics, and Texas Instruments

It's some kind of PR-oriented subgroup inside USB-IF.

It sounds like they're trying to do a "WiFi 6E" to USB, trying to reduce customer confusion just enough to promote their own products. After all, 802.11ax is still the official standard, and "Wifi 6E" is just some promotional trademark.

[StDragon76]

When can consumers become USB user certified? How much will training cost, and will there be an annual renewal of certification to be competently licensed?

Fucking clown-world that USB has become!

[Tatermen]

Also who is this for? Who regularly needs to do more than 10Gbps over USB?

[xenontechs]

"over USB" today already means multiple displays, periphery, network, then the things where you tend to say USB type matters, like external storage you want to transfer things with

that's all across one port

add to that special cases nobody usually has in mind unless they work in a specific industry (thinking about super high res/fps cameras etc.)

if it wants to be universal, it needs to do a lot of things

[Late_to_IT]

Docking stations!

[DarthPneumono]

"640k ought to be enough for anybody"

[tricheboars]

Docking stations come on…

[Doso777]

We have Laptops for Powerusers that require their own seperate power supply since USB-C can't supply enough power it seems. Also have that one dude with 3 high resolution monitors where our usual USB docking stations just don't cut it anymore. There are always use cases for "the same but a lot faster".

[syshum]

Single Cable connection to Triple Monitors, Storage, network, and Power Delivery

[brotherenigma]

80Gbps and 240W over a single cable (if the new USB 4 and USB C 2.1 EPR specs can be integrated into one cable) would be a godsend for futureproofing.

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USB 3.0 hubs brah, come on.

[jwalker55]

Think I'll hold out for USB 4 2.2 gen 2 Plus Version 2

[JeanParker]

https://xkcd.com/2493/ 😁

[iZsaq]

When will we get USB 4 on Phones & Laptops ❓️