What’s so complex about USB-C that we couldn’t have had this technology 20 years ago?
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Usb-C as a communications and power cable?
No technical limit in materials science I am aware of that prevents it.
But, 20 years ago there was no application that needed the power and data speeds of USB-C. I’d need to do some maths to check but it might be that you’d exceed the computational power of a 2000s PC trying to read in USB-C data at max bandwidth. It would have been an expensive cable of no real world use.
Communications standards like usb evolve alongside the users of that communication for reasons of economics more often that those of fundamental science.
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