Soon a welcome simplification of USB standards with new logos

In recent years, with technological improvements to USB and new obscure names like USB 3.2 Gen 2 or USB4v2, it can be complicated to navigate and buy the hardware you really need. Fortunately, the USB Implementor Forum (USB-IF), the organization behind this connection, will finally simplify all this, according to PCWorld.

New logos and the end of complex names

Rather than using obscure names often misunderstood by the general public, the organization has chosen to democratize new logos for the different generations of USB ports and cables based on their speed. So, for example, USB 4 becomes USB 40 Gb/s, USB 4 v2 becomes USB 80 Gb/s, and USB 3.2 Gen 2 becomes USB 10 Gb/s.

If the manufacturers play the game (which could notably be the case of Dell according to the USB-IF), these speeds will be visible directly next to the USB ports concerned on the docks or laptops, but also on the packaging of the products.

Necessary standardization

Same thing for cables, whose new logos on sockets and boxes will also display data in watts concerning their speed and their transmission capacity between two devices. This will certainly simplify the purchase of a cable adapted to your devices to make the most of them.

If the display of this somewhat technical data may initially put off consumers who are less familiar with technology, after a short period of adaptation, it is difficult not to see here a good decision and a certainly necessary simplification.