{"id":141434,"date":"2022-02-03T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=141434"},"modified":"2023-06-22T08:15:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T07:15:41","slug":"usb-4-is-coming-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/technology\/usb-4-is-coming-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"USB 4 is Coming: What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

The USB 4 output is coming, which will allow your gadgets to transfer content much faster.\u00a0Announced on March 4 by the USB Promoter Group, the USB 4 architecture will outperform Thunderbolt 3 and also be able to handle new standards.<\/p>\n

So, from speed boosts to new display connectivity options, here’s everything you need to know about the new USB 4.<\/p>\n

USB 4 is Coming: What You Need to Know<\/p>\n

WHAT IS USB 4?\u00a0WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?<\/h3>\n

The biggest difference for most users is the 100-700% increase in USB speed (not to be confused with Thunderbolt), depending on the surrounding hardware.\u00a0If you keep using USB 3.0 ports, they top out at 5Gbps, and the new USB 4 goes up to 40Gbps, which is beyond your wildest expectations.<\/p>\n

As part of the announcement, there was also news that USB 4 would be compatible with\u00a0Thunderbolt 3\u00a0(as well as USB 3.2 and USB 2.0).\u00a0In addition, Thunderbolt 3 will now be available to more companies – without the extra fees previously charged for fast technology – so companies will have one less excuse for not having it on their products.<\/p>\n

Thunderbolt 3 to USB 4 integration “will enable simultaneous data and image protocols, meaning you can daisy-chain 4K monitors and other Thunderbolt 3 devices, along with external storage or graphics cards, all over a single cable connected to a PC” .<\/p>\n

WHEN WILL USB 4 COMING OUT?<\/h3>\n

The announcement of the new standard did not include the USB 4 specification, which, according to a press release from USB Promoters, is currently in “final review” with more than 50 companies participating.\u00a0The release says that the specification will be published in mid-2019.<\/p>\n

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This release will also coincide with an updated version of the USB Type-C specification created to be compatible with USB 4. At this stage, we do not know what the USB 4 male and female ports will look like, but we hope to learn more in the next stage.<\/p>\n

All this suggests that we will not see actual USB 4 ports in 2019, but the next years promise to be debuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The USB 4 output is coming, which will allow your gadgets to transfer content much faster.\u00a0Announced on March 4 by the USB Promoter Group, the USB 4 architecture will outperform Thunderbolt 3 and also be able to handle new standards. So, from speed boosts to new display connectivity options, here’s everything you need to know […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":141435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-141434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifiratings.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}