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you know what really overcooks my pasta when groups of seemingly

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very smart people in positions of power in the tech world build this really cool

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technology then when it's finally time to bring it

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to market come up with naming schemes for it that make no sense the worst and

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yes that's right i am looking at you usb

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forum and for you guys specifically what

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really confuses me is that you went over to the dark side after a long history of

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making things actually pretty simple and straightforward so we

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started out with usb 1 then we got 1.1

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which was a minor revision to 1. cool then we got usb 2.0 which was much

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faster then we got usb 3.0 which was

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much faster again so then it wasn't until around 2013 that

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things started getting a little weird you see the original usb 3.0 spec had a

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max theoretical speed of 5 gigabits per second so you would think that the next

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revision which doubled that speed to 10 gigabit would be usb

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4.0 right wrong

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instead what we got was usb 3.1 but

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honestly i was even okay with that i mean one is clearly a larger number than

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zero and i guess it wasn't a fundamental redesign of the spec or anything

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no no no the issue is that at the same

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time they also renamed the original usb

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3.0 spec as usb 3.1 gen 1 then called

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the new 10 gigabit spec usb 3.1 gen 2.

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i mean how do you just rename something after

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the fact do you are you shampoo

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do you think that makes it seem new and cool now now improved but it's the old

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one but you're also releasing a new one that is improved why

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and in fairness yeah it's been done before but still

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then making matters worse we've just

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gotten another doubling in speed to 20

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gigabits per second why am i mad i mean extra speed's a good thing right

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the reason is that the usb forum has given us an even worse nonsensical

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naming twist so bear with me here the original usb

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3.0 5 gigabit spec is now usb 3.2 gen 1

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with the 10 gigabit version becoming usb

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3.2 gen 2 which

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okay so by this moon logic then the 20 gigabit variation would be usb 3.2 gen 3

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right no because the usb 3.2 spec just involves

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adding more lanes to the connection so

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the 20 gigabit version is usb 3.2 gen2

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by two with the buy two indicating that there

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are two data lanes instead of just one

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the usb so the usb forum whose marketing

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department clearly isn't much better at naming things than the engineers has

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then gone and recommended the names super speed

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super speed usb 10 gigabit per second

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and super speed usb 20 gigabit per second to differentiate the products on

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store shelves

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now to be fair to the usb forum the method behind their madness seems to

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be to have the naming scheme reflect how many lanes can be used in each revision

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and i do get that when they transitioned from usb 2.0 to 3.0 part of the

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rationale for a big number change was

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that there were physical differences with the connectors which is not the

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case for the various usb 3 revisions

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the problem though is that gen is

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generation it means time

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you can't just rename a generation a

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later generation that's not how it works my my great grandpa doesn't become my

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dad later furthermore usb 3.0 was backwards

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compatible with usb 2.0 connectors anyway and more importantly than all of

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this is that consumers don't care about

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things like the configuration of data lanes and

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exactly how the pins and the traces on their motherboard are laid out they just

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want to know if if the gadget they're buying is going to work with their gear

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and how fast it's going to be i mean pci express has this sort of thing figured

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out now to be clear there are some very complicated sub-elements of the PCIe

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specification like like hot plug support that are optional on certain revisions

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and then required on others etc etc etc but from a consumer standpoint when

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there's a speed boost the version number goes up by one and that's

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basically it and even though the various revisions of pci express are all

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backwards and forwards compatible with each other the folks in charge haven't

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felt the need to mess around with silly rebranding to make the point that it all

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works together it's all called pci express it's all called usb

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tada but alas this is the system we have so

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if you're going to be in the market for a usb gadget anytime soon i would

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recommend paying really close attention to this chart that we created for your

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convenience or better yet print it out and keep a copy in your wallet like i do

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so that you too can be the life of the party whenever the subject changes to

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something lame like

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this all right so that's it if you'll excuse

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me now i need to go have a word with Intel about how they decide on names for

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their processors as well be right back

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