What’s so complex about USB-C that we couldn’t have had this technology 20 years ago?
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The signaling rate of data on modern USB-C cables is crazy high. Cables today can carry power, 5K video and high speed data at rates faster than computers ran 20 years ago. The controller chips for modern USB are VERY complex and couldn’t have been manufactured at a price / size that would have made sense in consumer products 20 years ago. Electronics really have gotten smaller / faster / cheaper over time.
Compare the function and complexity of the motherboard inside an original Apple ][ or TRS-80 with the main board in your Phone. Amazing progress. Modern SOC (System on a Chip) designs are tens of thousands of times more complex than the processors in the original IBM PC.
Modern USB-C is equally far removed from computer interfaces of 20 yrs ago.
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