What is USB Typc-C, why is it so popular?

  Since Apple released a new MacBook, there are a bunch of people in the hot USB Type-C, said it has a small size, positive and negative can be inserted, fast (10Gb) and other advantages, said the representative of the USB interface development direction, And praise Apple's ability to innovate no one can.

  USB Type-C (referred to as USB-C), it has a new interface size and slightly cool name, very easy to make the first time I heard this little partner that this is a new USB standard, but the actual Not on it. Type-C is only part of the USB 3.1 standard, not a new standard.

  It is as compact and compact as the Lightning interface in iPhone, and can be extended to power / USB transfer / VGA or HDMI interface, and can be compatible with USB3.0, USB2.0 and other previous generation interface.

  It should be noted that, similar to the common USB 2.0, USB 3.1 standard is still Type-A (common in the host computer) and Type-B (common in Andrews mobile phone) and other interfaces, so Type-C only USB 3.1 high-speed data transmission One, not the only one.

  So, USB3.1 and Type-C interface in the end what relationship? Type-C specification is based on USB3.1 standard, so USB3.1 can be made into Type-C, Type-A and other types, but Type-C is not equal to USB3.1.

We used three kinds of interfaces

(1) Type-A: Standard USB interface

Type-A is our most common type of USB interface, commonly used on the computer. But it has some notable problems: there is a direction requirement. The connector (male) must be inserted into the interface (female) from a specific direction, but the insertion process often goes wrong because the two sides of the USB port are very close.

(2) Micro-B: USB standard for mobile devices

Most of the current Andrews mobile phone is used Micro USB interface (USB Micro-B), this interface is still widely used in a variety of mobile portable devices.

(3) USB Type-C: or will become mainstream

Although Type-C appears shortly, but can be expected, with the USB Type-C technology mature, the future of a variety of notebooks, tablet PCs and even smart phones will begin to popular USB Type-C interface.