By Gabe Carey
Introduction
Look around you. Even with the advent of the cloud and the ubiquity of Wi-Fi replacing cables nothing beats a good old Universal Serial Bus port – or simply USB. It’s ingrained in our phones, tablets, computers, game consoles, cameras and the list goes on and on.
Practically anything you own uses USB, and we’ve graduated to this point over the last 20 years. The USB Type-A standard, which is what we most commonly use today, saw its first public release in 1996 has grown immeasurably since then and it’s even replaced ubiquitous interfaces before it (i.e. FireWire). USB has also made its way to smaller devices like our phones and tablets replacing the mess of proprietary chargers as well.
You probably know this already, though. Surely, you’ve used a USB thumb drive to move files around. But it’s not 1996 anymore, and our technological needs are evolving.
As such, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the organization behind this universal connection started working in 2014 on a new specification, branded USB Type-C (or USB-C for short) to replace the USB Type-A port we know and love.
Promising a reversible design for …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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