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 ...

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 Universal Serial Bus is getting a sweet upgrade. The USB alliance has made official the name of the 10Gbps specification for USB, and they're calling it USB 3.1. While only USB 3.1 products will ...

The USB 3.1 specification is complete and will boost the SuperSpeed USB transfer rates up to 10Gbps. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced the news and said that transfer rates will double compared to ...

Things are about to get faster. The USB Promoter Group announced that it has completed the USB 3.1 specification, which will enable SuperSpeed USB performance of 10Gbps. This, of course, rivals Intel ...

The war between USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt is heating up. Since it launched in the beginning of 2011, Intel's Thunderbolt standard has been outstandingly fast at 10Gbps per lane. USB 3.0, an older spec, ...

This week the USB 3.0 Promoter Group has announced that they will be launching a new faster connection speed of 10Gbps in a new USB 3.1 standard which is available today for download from the USB ...

Earlier this year, the trade organization behind the USB 3.0 specification proposed a new version of USB 3 that supports 10Gbps of data transfer over a backwards compatible connector. The spec has now ...

After 20 years of continuous improvements in performance and in performance alone - which became dull and, at some point, slowed the transition significantly - USB has become exciting again. Last year ...

USB has been around for decades, and the sheer number of USB and Thunderbolt versions in 2025 can be bewildering. Here's what you need to know about USB 3, USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, and ...

I have a USB Type-C cable—yeah, the reversible one. I can’t connect it to anything I own yet, but it’s a real thing that’s in production and shipping to companies. Most of CES amounts to so much smoke ...