The USB Promoter Group of the USB-IF Alliance announced earlierUSB 4.0 Version 2.0, mainly increasing the maximum data transfer rate from the previous 40Gbp to 80Gbps, while still using USB-C as the main connection specification, and backward compatible with USB 4.0, USB 3.2 and other versions of the connection specification.
The USB Promoter Group plans to announce more details during the USB DevDays event in November. The design announced this time primarily includes increasing the data transfer rate to 11Gbps, which will enable higher data throughput and facilitate the delivery of computing performance to external graphics cards or the transmission of higher-definition video content.
In addition, USB 4.0 version XNUMX also supports the new DisplayPort and PCIe connection specifications to accommodate more diverse connection usage modes.
As for the connection specifications corresponding to the second version of USB 4.0, it is still mainly based on USB-C, but it can also correspond to Thunderbolt 3, USB 4.0 first version, as well as USB 3.2 and USB 2.0.


