Why are modern USB cables able to put through more data in the same form factor? Why are some micro USB cables power only, while others can carry data? How is USB-C able to transfer such a large amount of both power and data?
How are we able to do this now, but we weren’t in the past? What’s changed?
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That is a lot to cover.
Data / Power only cables – To make them cheaper the power only cables do not have the wires for the data lines in them at all as power is sent on complete different wires then the data.
To the more data question. The new data standards use a number of things to make it faster. Data compression, faster signaling, and in more wires for data. As the 3.0 standard added them.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/7416o2/my_revised_usb_standards_chart_after_the_usb_32/
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