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 ...

Seagate recently announced its latest external storage drive - the Innov8, which is one of the first to make use of the new USB 3.1 standard (note that this is the faster, more recent Gen 2, not the ...

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 ...

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.

When working with USB 3.1, designers are challenged to provide the 10 Gbps USB 3.1 speeds that customers expect while supporting backward compatibility with USB 3.0 devices in a hub topology. Using ...

With the next evolution of USB now here with the launch of USB 3.1, vendors are quickly ramping up production of storage solutions among others to utilize the increase in performance. With this comes ...

Back in October 2015 Club 3D did introduce its first USB 3.1 Type-C Adapters. Those adapters did have a very good market acceptance directly from the beginning and with Type C featured Notebooks, ...

If you thought USB 3.0 was face-meltingly fast, wait until you try transferring files with what’s coming next. On Thursday, the USB promoter group announced that it’s signed off on the final ...

Read part 1 of this series on the basics of transmitter and receiver testing for the latest version of USB and part 2 on type-C cable assemblies. The USB PD (Power Delivery) revision 2.0 is 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 ...