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</style><table class="infobox infobox-table"><caption class="infobox-title">USB 3.0</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="4" class="infobox-image">

</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

<a href="USB" title="USB">USB</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="4" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ccccff">Production history</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Designed</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

November 2008 (2008-11)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Manufacturer</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

USB 3.0 Promoter Group (<a href="Hewlett-Packard" title="Hewlett-Packard">Hewlett-Packard</a>, <a href="Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a>, <a href="Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>, <a href="NEC" title="NEC">NEC</a>, <a href="ST-Ericsson" title="ST-Ericsson">ST-Ericsson</a>, and <a href="Texas_Instruments" title="Texas Instruments">Texas Instruments</a>)<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Superseded</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

<a href="USB_2.0_Hi-Speed" class="mw-redirect" title="USB 2.0 Hi-Speed">USB 2.0 Hi-Speed</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Superseded by</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

<a href="#3.1">USB 3.1</a>, <a href="#3.2">USB 3.2</a>, <a href="USB4" title="USB4">USB4</a> (July 2013, September 2017, August 2019)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="4" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ccccff">General specifications</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Length</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

Standard‑A plug: 12 mm Standard‑B plug: 12 mm Type‑C (USB‑C) plug: 6.65 mm</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Width</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

Standard‑A plug: 12 mm Standard‑B plug: 8 mm Micro‑A & Micro‑B plugs: 12.2 mm Type‑C (USB‑C) plug: 8.25 mm</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Height</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

Standard‑A plug: 4.5 mm Standard‑B plug: 10.44 mm Micro‑A & Micro‑B plugs: 1.8 mm Type‑C (USB‑C) plug: 2.40 mm</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="Daisy_chain_(electrical_engineering)" title="Daisy chain (electrical engineering)">Daisy chain</a></th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Audio signal</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Video signal</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

No</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Pins</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

Type‑C, 24 (plug 22); Micro, 10; Standard, 9)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Connector</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

USB-C (USB Type‑C), USB 3.0 Standard‑A, USB 3.0 Standard‑B, Powered‑B, USB 3.0 Micro‑A, USB 3.0 Micro‑B, USB 3.0 Micro‑AB receptacle</td></tr><tr><th colspan="4" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ccccff">Electrical</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Max. voltage</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

5V</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Max. current</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

900 mA 1.5 A (BC 1.1/1.2, USB 3.2 single-lane) 3 A (USB 3.2 multi-lane Type‑C)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="4" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ccccff">Data</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Data signal</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

Yes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Bitrate</th><td colspan="3" class="infobox-data">

5 Gbit/s (500 MB/s, USB 3.0) 10 Gbit/s (1.212 GB/s, USB 3.1 Gen 2) 20 Gbit/s (2.422 GB/s, USB 3.2 Gen 2×2)</td></tr></tbody></table>

Universal Serial Bus 3.0 (USB 3.0), marketed as SuperSpeed USB, is the third major version of the <a href="Universal_Serial_Bus" class="mw-redirect" title="Universal Serial Bus">Universal Serial Bus</a> (USB) standard for interfacing computers and electronic devices. It was released in November 2008. The USB 3.0 specification defined a new architecture and protocol, named SuperSpeed, which included a new lane for providing full-duplex data transfers that physically required five additional wires and pins, while also adding a new signal coding scheme (8b/10b symbols, 5 Gbit/s; also known later as Gen 1), and preserving the USB 2.0 architecture and protocols and therefore keeping the original four pins and wires for the USB 2.0 backward-compatibility, resulting in nine wires in total and nine or ten pins at connector interfaces (ID-pin is not wired). The new transfer rate, marketed as SuperSpeed USB (SS), can transfer signals at up to 5 <a href="Gbit/s" class="mw-redirect" title="Gbit/s">Gbit/s</a> (with raw data rate of 500 <a href="MB/s" class="mw-redirect" title="MB/s">MB/s</a> after encoding overhead), which is about 10 times faster than High-Speed (maximum for <a href="USB_2.0" class="mw-redirect" title="USB 2.0">USB 2.0</a> standard). In USB 3.0 Type‑A (and usually also Type-B) connectors the visible inside insulators are often blue, to distinguish them from USB 2.0 connectors, as recommended by the specification,<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.1_spec-3">[3]</a>: §5.3.1.4 and by the initials SS.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a>

<a href="#3.1">USB 3.1</a>, released in July 2013, is the successor specification that fully replaces the USB 3.0 specification. USB 3.1 preserves the existing SuperSpeed USB architecture and protocol with its operation mode (8b/10b symbols, 5 Gbit/s), giving it the label USB 3.1 Gen 1.<a href="#cite_note-3.1_SLUG-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> USB 3.1 introduced an Enhanced SuperSpeed System – while preserving and incorporating the SuperSpeed architecture and protocol (aka SuperSpeed USB) – with an additional SuperSpeedPlus architecture adding and providing a new coding schema (128b/132b symbols) and protocol named SuperSpeedPlus (aka SuperSpeedPlus USB, sometimes marketed as SuperSpeed+ or SS+) while defining a new transfer mode called USB 3.1 Gen 2<a href="#cite_note-3.1_SLUG-5">[5]</a> with a signal speed of 10 Gbit/s and a raw data rate of 1212 MB/s over existing Type‑A, Type‑B, and <a href="USB-C" title="USB-C">Type‑C</a> (USB‑C) connections, more than twice the rate of USB 3.0 (aka Gen 1).<a href="#cite_note-:0-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-USB_3.1_spec-3">[3]</a> Backward-compatibility is still given by the parallel USB 2.0 implementation. USB 3.1 Gen 2 Standard‑A and Standard‑B connectors are often teal-colored, though this is nonstandard. (The standard recommends that all Standard‑A plugs and receptacles capable of USB 3, including those capable of Gen 2, have blue insulators, specifically Pantone 300 C. It makes no mention of teal, or Standard‑B connector color, and all other Type‑A and Type‑B connectors—Micro and Mini—are required to have white, black, or grey insulators for Type‑A, ‑B, and ‑AB, respectively.)

<a href="#3.2">USB 3.2</a>, released in September 2017, fully replaces the USB 3.1 specification. The USB 3.2 specification added a second lane to the Enhanced SuperSpeed System besides other enhancements, so that SuperSpeedPlus USB implements the Gen 2×1 (formerly known as USB 3.1 Gen 2), and the two new Gen 1×2 and Gen 2×2 operation modes while operating on two lanes. The SuperSpeed architecture and protocol (aka SuperSpeed USB) still implements the one-lane Gen 1×1 (formerly known as USB 3.1 Gen 1) operation mode. Therefore, two-lane operations, namely USB 3.2 Gen 1×2 (10 Gbit/s with raw data rate of 1 GB/s after encoding overhead) and USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 (20 Gbit/s, 2.422 GB/s), are only possible with Full-Featured Fabrics (host, hubs, peripheral device, and fully wired cables and plugs with 24 pins). As of 2023, USB 3.2 Gen 1×2 and Gen 2×2 are not implemented on many products yet; Intel, however, started to include them in its <a href="LGA_1200" title="LGA 1200">LGA 1200 Rocket Lake chipsets (500 series)</a> in January 2021 and AMD in its <a href="Socket_AM5" title="Socket AM5">LGA 1718 AM5 chipsets</a> in September 2022, but Apple never provided them. On the other hand, USB 3.2 Gen 1×1 (5 Gbit/s) and Gen 2×1 (10 Gbit/s) implementations have become quite common. Again, backward-compatibility is given by the parallel USB 2.0 implementation.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2></div>

The USB 3.0 specification is similar to <a href="USB_2.0" class="mw-redirect" title="USB 2.0">USB 2.0</a>, but with many improvements and an alternative implementation. Earlier USB concepts such as endpoints and the four transfer types (bulk, control, <a href="Isochronous" class="mw-redirect" title="Isochronous">isochronous</a> and interrupt) are preserved but the protocol and electrical interface are different. The specification defines a physically separate channel to carry USB 3.0 traffic. The changes in this specification make improvements in the following areas:

<ul><li>Transfer speed – USB 3.0 adds a new transfer type called SuperSpeed or SS, 5 Gbit/s (electrically, it is more similar to <a href="PCI_Express_2.0" class="mw-redirect" title="PCI Express 2.0">PCI Express 2.0</a> and <a href="Serial_ATA" class="mw-redirect" title="Serial ATA">SATA</a> than USB 2.0).<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></li>

<li>Increased bandwidth – USB 3.0 uses two unidirectional data paths instead of only one: one to receive data and the other to transmit.</li>

<li>Power management – U0 to U3 link power management states are defined.</li>

<li>Improved bus use – a new feature is added (using packets NRDY and ERDY) to let a device asynchronously notify the host of its readiness, with no need for polling.</li>

<li>Support for rotating media – the bulk protocol is updated with a new feature called Stream Protocol that allows a large number of logical streams within an Endpoint.</li></ul>

USB 3.0 has transmission speeds of up to 5 Gbit/s, or 5000 Mbit/s, about ten times as fast as USB 2.0 (0.48 Gbit/s) even without considering that USB 3.0 is <a href="Full_duplex" class="mw-redirect" title="Full duplex">full duplex</a> whereas USB 2.0 is <a href="Half_duplex" class="mw-redirect" title="Half duplex">half duplex</a>. This gives USB 3.0 a potential total bidirectional bandwidth twenty times as great as that of USB 2.0.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> Considering flow control, packet framing and protocol overhead, applications can expect 450 MB/s of bandwidth.<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.2_spec_1.0-10">[10]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Architecture_and_features">Architecture and features</h3></div>

In USB 3.0, dual-bus architecture is used to allow both USB 2.0 (Full Speed, Low Speed, or High Speed) and USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed) operations to take place simultaneously, thus providing <a href="Backward_compatibility" title="Backward compatibility">backward compatibility</a>. The structural topology is the same, consisting of a tiered star topology with a root hub at level 0 and hubs at lower levels to provide bus connectivity to devices.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Data_transfer_and_synchronization">Data transfer and synchronization</h3></div>

The SuperSpeed transaction is initiated by a host request, followed by a response from the device. The device either accepts the request or rejects it; if accepted, the device sends data or accepts data from the host. If the endpoint is halted, the device responds with a STALL handshake. If there is lack of buffer space or data, it responds with a Not Ready (NRDY) signal to tell the host that it is not able to process the request. When the device is ready, it sends an Endpoint Ready (ERDY) to the host which then reschedules the transaction.

The use of <a href="Unicast" title="Unicast">unicast</a> and the limited number of <a href="Multicast" title="Multicast">multicast</a> packets, combined with asynchronous notifications, enables links that are not actively passing packets to be put into reduced power states, which allows better power management.

USB 3.0 uses a <a href="Spread_Spectrum_Clock" class="mw-redirect" title="Spread Spectrum Clock">spread-spectrum clock</a> varying by up to 5000 ppm at 33 kHz to reduce EMI. As a result, the receiver needs to continually "chase" the clock to recover the data. <a href="Clock_recovery" title="Clock recovery">Clock recovery</a> is helped by the 8b/10b encoding and other designs.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Data_encoding">Data encoding</h3></div>

The "SuperSpeed" bus provides for a transfer mode at a nominal rate of 5.0 Gbit/s, in addition to the three existing transfer modes. Accounting for the encoding overhead, the raw data throughput is 4 Gbit/s, and the specification considers it reasonable to achieve 3.2 Gbit/s (400 MB/s) or more in practice.<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.0_spec-12">[12]</a>

All data is sent as a stream of eight-bit (one-byte) segments that are scrambled and converted into 10-bit symbols via <a href="8b/10b_encoding" title="8b/10b encoding">8b/10b encoding</a>; this helps prevent transmissions from generating <a href="Electromagnetic_interference" title="Electromagnetic interference">electromagnetic interference</a> (EMI).<a href="#cite_note-:0-7">[7]</a> Scrambling is implemented using a free-running <a href="LFSR" class="mw-redirect" title="LFSR">linear feedback shift register</a> (LFSR). The LFSR is reset whenever a COM symbol is sent or received.<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.0_spec-12">[12]</a>

Unlike previous standards, the USB 3.0 standard does not specify a maximum cable length, requiring only that all cables meet an electrical specification: for copper cabling with <a href="American_wire_gauge" title="American wire gauge">AWG</a> 26 wires, the maximum practical length is 3 meters (10 ft).<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Power_and_charging">Power and charging</h3></div>

As with earlier versions of USB, USB 3.0 provides power at 5 volts nominal. The available current for low-power (one unit load) SuperSpeed devices is 150 mA, an increase from the 100 mA defined in USB 2.0. For high-power SuperSpeed devices, the limit is six unit loads or 900 mA (4.5 <a href="Watt_(unit)" class="mw-redirect" title="Watt (unit)">W</a>)—almost twice USB 2.0's 500 mA.<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.0_spec-12">[12]</a>: section 9.2.5.1 Power Budgeting

USB 3.0 ports may implement other USB specifications for increased power, including the <a href="USB_Battery_Charging_Specification" class="mw-redirect" title="USB Battery Charging Specification">USB Battery Charging Specification</a> for up to 1.5 A or 7.5 W, or, in the case of USB 3.1, the <a href="USB_Power_Delivery_Specification" class="mw-redirect" title="USB Power Delivery Specification">USB Power Delivery Specification</a> for charging the host device up to 100 W.<a href="#cite_note-power_spec-14">[14]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Naming_scheme">Naming scheme</h3></div>

Starting with the USB 3.2 specification, USB-IF introduced a new naming scheme.<a href="#cite_note-3.2_SLUG-15">[15]</a> To help companies with branding of the different operation modes, USB-IF recommended branding the 5, 10, and 20 Gbit/s capabilities as SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps, SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps, and SuperSpeed USB 20 Gbps, respectively.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a>

In 2023, they were replaced again,<a href="#cite_note-usb.org-17">[17]</a> replacing "SuperSpeed" with USB 5Gbps, USB 10Gbps, and USB 20Gbps, and introducing new Packaging and Port logos.<a href="#cite_note-new_and_deprecated_logos-2023-18">[18]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Availability">Availability</h2></div>

The USB 3.0 Promoter Group announced on 17 November 2008 that the specification of version 3.0 had been completed and had made the transition to the <a href="USB_Implementers_Forum" title="USB Implementers Forum">USB Implementers Forum</a> (USB-IF), the managing body of USB specifications.<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-19">[19]</a> This move effectively opened the specification to hardware developers for implementation in future products.

The first USB 3.0 consumer products were announced and shipped by <a href="Buffalo_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Buffalo Technology">Buffalo Technology</a> in November 2009, while the first certified USB 3.0 consumer products were announced on 5 January 2010, at the Las Vegas <a href="Consumer_Electronics_Show" class="mw-redirect" title="Consumer Electronics Show">Consumer Electronics Show</a> (CES), including two motherboards by <a href="Asus" title="Asus">Asus</a> and <a href="Gigabyte_Technology" title="Gigabyte Technology">Gigabyte Technology</a>.<a href="#cite_note-usb3_first_17-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-usb3_first_17pdf-21">[21]</a>

Manufacturers of USB 3.0 host controllers include, but are not limited to, <a href="Renesas_Electronics" title="Renesas Electronics">Renesas Electronics</a>, Fresco Logic, <a href="ASMedia" title="ASMedia">ASMedia</a>, Etron, <a href="VIA_Technologies" title="VIA Technologies">VIA Technologies</a>, <a href="Texas_Instruments" title="Texas Instruments">Texas Instruments</a>, <a href="NEC" title="NEC">NEC</a> and <a href="Nvidia" title="Nvidia">Nvidia</a>. As of November 2010, Renesas and Fresco Logic<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> have passed USB-IF certification. Motherboards for <a href="Intel" title="Intel">Intel</a>'s <a href="Sandy_Bridge" title="Sandy Bridge">Sandy Bridge</a> processors have been seen with Asmedia and Etron host controllers as well. On 28 October 2010, <a href="Hewlett-Packard" title="Hewlett-Packard">Hewlett-Packard</a> released the <a href="HP_Envy" title="HP Envy">HP Envy</a> 17 3D featuring a Renesas USB 3.0 host controller several months before some of their competitors. <a href="AMD" title="AMD">AMD</a> worked with Renesas to add its USB 3.0 implementation into its chipsets for its 2011 platforms. At CES2011, <a href="Toshiba" title="Toshiba">Toshiba</a> unveiled a laptop called "<a href="Qosmio" title="Qosmio">Qosmio</a> X500" that included USB 3.0 and <a href="Bluetooth_3.0" class="mw-redirect" title="Bluetooth 3.0">Bluetooth 3.0</a>, and <a href="Sony" title="Sony">Sony</a> released a new series of <a href="Sony_VAIO" class="mw-redirect" title="Sony VAIO">Sony VAIO</a> laptops that would include USB 3.0. As of April 2011, the <a href="Inspiron" class="mw-redirect" title="Inspiron">Inspiron</a> and <a href="Dell_XPS" title="Dell XPS">Dell XPS</a> series were available with USB 3.0 ports, and, as of May 2012, the <a href="Dell_Latitude" title="Dell Latitude">Dell Latitude</a> laptop series were as well; yet the USB root hosts failed to work at SuperSpeed under Windows 8.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adding_to_existing_equipment">Adding to existing equipment</h3></div>

Additional power for multiple ports on a laptop PC may be obtained in the following ways:

<ul><li>Some <a href="ExpressCard" title="ExpressCard">ExpressCard</a>-to-USB 3.0 adapters may connect by a cable to an additional USB 2.0 port on the computer, which supplies additional power.</li>

<li>The ExpressCard may have a socket for an external power supply.</li>

<li>If the external device has an appropriate connector, it can be powered by an <a href="External_power_supply" class="mw-redirect" title="External power supply">external power supply</a>.</li>

<li>USB 3.0 port provided by an ExpressCard-to-USB 3.0 adapter may be connected to a separately-powered USB 3.0 hub, with external devices connected to that USB 3.0 hub.</li></ul>

On the motherboards of desktop PCs which have <a href="PCI_Express" title="PCI Express">PCI Express</a> (PCIe) slots (or the older <a href="Peripheral_Component_Interconnect" title="Peripheral Component Interconnect">PCI</a> standard), USB 3.0 support can be added as a PCI Express <a href="Expansion_card" title="Expansion card">expansion card</a>. In addition to an empty PCIe slot on the motherboard, many "PCI Express to USB 3.0" expansion cards must be connected to a power supply such as a <a href="Molex_connector" title="Molex connector">Molex</a> adapter or external power supply, in order to power many USB 3.0 devices such as mobile phones, or external hard drives that have no power source other than USB; as of 2011, this is often used to supply two to four USB 3.0 ports with the full 0.9 A (4.5 W) of power that each USB 3.0 port is capable of (while also transmitting data), whereas the PCI Express slot itself cannot supply the required amount of power.

If faster connections to storage devices are the reason to consider USB 3.0, an alternative is to use <a href="ESATAp" title="ESATAp">eSATAp</a>, possibly by adding an inexpensive expansion slot bracket that provides an eSATAp port; some external hard disk drives provide both USB (2.0 or 3.0) and eSATAp interfaces.<a href="#cite_note-usb3_first_17pdf-21">[21]</a> To ensure compatibility between motherboards and peripherals, all USB-certified devices must be approved by the <a href="USB_Implementers_Forum" title="USB Implementers Forum">USB Implementers Forum</a> (USB-IF). At least one complete end-to-end test system for USB 3.0 designers is available on the market.<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.0_Test_Suite-23">[23]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adoption">Adoption</h3></div>

The USB Promoter Group announced the release of USB 3.0 in November 2008. On 5 January 2010, the <a href="USB-IF" class="mw-redirect" title="USB-IF">USB-IF</a> announced the first two certified USB 3.0 motherboards, one by <a href="Asus" title="Asus">ASUS</a> and one by <a href="Gigabyte_Technology" title="Gigabyte Technology">Giga-Byte Technology</a>.<a href="#cite_note-usb3_first_17pdf-21">[21]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> Previous announcements included Gigabyte's October 2009 list of seven <a href="List_of_Intel_chipsets" title="List of Intel chipsets">P55 chipset</a> USB 3.0 motherboards,<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> and an Asus motherboard that was cancelled before production.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a>

Commercial controllers were expected to enter into volume production in the first quarter of 2010.<a href="#cite_note-Farady_and_Fresco_Logic_to_introduce_USB_3.0_controllers-27">[27]</a> On 14 September 2009, <a href="Freecom" title="Freecom">Freecom</a> announced a USB 3.0 external hard drive.<a href="#cite_note-World's_first_USB_3.0_ready_external_hard_drive-28">[28]</a> On 4 January 2010, <a href="Seagate_Technology" title="Seagate Technology">Seagate</a> announced a small portable HDD bundled with an additional USB 3.0 <a href="ExpressCard" title="ExpressCard">ExpressCard</a>, targeted for laptops (or desktops with ExpressCard slot addition) at the CES in Las Vegas Nevada.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a>

The <a href="Linux_kernel_mainline" class="mw-redirect" title="Linux kernel mainline">Linux kernel mainline</a> contains support for USB 3.0 since version 2.6.31, which was released in September 2009.<a href="#cite_note-Linux_2.6.31_kernel_news-31">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-German:_First_USB_3_drivers_coming_with_Linux_Kernel_2.6.31-32">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-First_Driver_for_USB_3.0-33">[33]</a>

<a href="FreeBSD" title="FreeBSD">FreeBSD</a> supports USB 3.0 since version 8.2, which was released in February 2011.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a>

<a href="Windows_8" title="Windows 8">Windows 8</a> was the first Microsoft operating system to offer built in support for USB 3.0.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> In <a href="Windows_7" title="Windows 7">Windows 7</a> support was not included with the initial release of the operating system.<a href="#cite_note-USB_3_in_Windows_7-36">[36]</a> However, drivers that enable support for Windows 7 are available through websites of hardware manufacturers.

<a href="Intel_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Intel Corporation">Intel</a> released its first <a href="Chipset" title="Chipset">chipset</a> with integrated USB 3.0 ports in 2012 with the release of the <a href="Panther_Point" class="mw-redirect" title="Panther Point">Panther Point</a> chipset. Some industry analysts have claimed that Intel was slow to integrate USB 3.0 into the chipset, thus slowing mainstream adoption.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> These delays may be due to problems in the <a href="CMOS" title="CMOS">CMOS</a> manufacturing process,<a href="#cite_note-heise.de-38">[38]</a> a focus to advance the <a href="Nehalem_(microarchitecture)" title="Nehalem (microarchitecture)">Nehalem</a> platform,<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> a wait to mature all the 3.0 connections standards (USB 3.0, <a href="PCI_Express_3" class="mw-redirect" title="PCI Express 3">PCIe 3.0</a>, <a href="Sata_600" class="mw-redirect" title="Sata 600">SATA 3.0</a>) before developing a new chipset,<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> or a tactic by Intel to favor its new <a href="Thunderbolt_(interface)" title="Thunderbolt (interface)">Thunderbolt</a> interface.<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> Apple, Inc. announced laptops with USB 3.0 ports on 11 June 2012, nearly four years after USB 3.0 was finalized.

<a href="Advanced_Micro_Devices" class="mw-redirect" title="Advanced Micro Devices">AMD</a> began supporting USB 3.0 with its <a href="A85X" class="mw-redirect" title="A85X">Fusion Controller Hubs</a> in 2011. <a href="Samsung_Electronics" title="Samsung Electronics">Samsung Electronics</a> announced support of USB 3.0 with its <a href="ARM_architecture" class="mw-redirect" title="ARM architecture">ARM</a>-based <a href="Exynos" title="Exynos">Exynos 5 Dual</a> platform intended for handheld devices.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Issues">Issues</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Speed_and_compatibility">Speed and compatibility</h3></div>

Various early USB 3.0 implementations widely used the <a href="NEC" title="NEC">NEC</a>/<a href="Renesas_Electronics" title="Renesas Electronics">Renesas</a> μD72020x family of host controllers,<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> which are known to require a firmware update to function properly with some devices.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a>

A factor affecting the speed of USB storage devices (more evident with USB 3.0 devices, but also noticeable with USB 2.0 ones) is that the <a href="USB_Mass_Storage_Bulk-Only_Transfer" class="mw-redirect" title="USB Mass Storage Bulk-Only Transfer">USB Mass Storage Bulk-Only Transfer</a> (BOT) protocol drivers are generally slower than the <a href="USB_Attached_SCSI" title="USB Attached SCSI">USB Attached SCSI</a> protocol (UAS[P]) drivers.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a><a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a>

On some old (2009–2010) <a href="Ibex_Peak" class="mw-redirect" title="Ibex Peak">Ibex Peak</a>-based motherboards, the built-in USB 3.0 chipsets are connected by default via a 2.5 <a href="Transfer_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Transfer (computing)">GT/s</a> <a href="PCI_Express" title="PCI Express">PCI Express</a> lane of the <a href="Platform_Controller_Hub" title="Platform Controller Hub">PCH</a>, which then did not provide full PCI Express 2.0 speed (5 GT/s), so it did not provide enough bandwidth even for a single USB 3.0 port. Early versions of such boards (e.g. the <a href="Gigabyte_Technology" title="Gigabyte Technology">Gigabyte Technology</a> P55A-UD4 or P55A-UD6) have a manual switch (in BIOS) that can connect the USB 3.0 chip to the processor (instead of the PCH), which did provide full-speed PCI Express 2.0 connectivity even then, but this meant using fewer PCI Express 2.0 lanes for the graphics card. However, newer boards (e.g. Gigabyte P55A-UD7 or the Asus P7P55D-E Premium) used a <a href="Channel_bonding" class="mw-redirect" title="Channel bonding">channel bonding</a> technique (in the case of those boards provided by a <a href="PLX_Technology" title="PLX Technology">PLX</a> PEX8608 or PEX8613 PCI Express switch) that combines two PCI Express 2.5 GT/s lanes into a single PCI Express 5 GT/s lane (among other features), thus obtaining the necessary bandwidth from the PCH.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a><a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio_frequency_interference">Radio frequency interference</h3></div>

USB 3.0 devices and cables may <a href="RF_interference" class="mw-redirect" title="RF interference">interfere</a> with wireless devices operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM band. This may result in a drop in throughput or complete loss of response with <a href="Bluetooth" title="Bluetooth">Bluetooth</a> and <a href="Wi-Fi" title="Wi-Fi">Wi-Fi</a> devices.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> When manufacturers were unable to resolve the interference issues in time, some mobile devices, such as the Vivo Xplay 3S, had to drop support for USB 3.0 just before they shipped.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> Various strategies can be applied to mitigate the problem, ranging from simple solutions, such as increasing the distance of USB 3.0 devices from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices, to applying additional shielding around internal computer components.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Connectors">Connectors</h2></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="USB_hardware#Connectors" title="USB hardware">USB hardware § Connectors</a></div>

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A USB 3.0 Standard‑A receptacle accepts either a USB 3.0 Standard‑A plug or a USB 2.0 Standard‑A plug. Conversely, it is possible to plug a USB 3.0 Standard‑A plug into a USB 2.0 Standard‑A receptacle. This is a principle of backward compatibility. The Standard‑A plug is used for connecting to a computer port, at the host side.

A USB 3.0 Standard‑B receptacle accepts either a USB 3.0 Standard‑B plug or a USB 2.0 Standard‑B plug. Backward compatibility applies to connecting a USB 2.0 Standard‑B plug into a USB 3.0 Standard‑B receptacle. However, it is not possible to plug a USB 3.0 Standard‑B plug into a USB 2.0 Standard‑B receptacle, due to the physically larger connector. The Standard‑B plug is used at the device side.

Since USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports may coexist on the same machine and they look similar, the USB 3.0 specification recommends that the Standard‑A USB 3.0 receptacle have a blue insert (<a href="Pantone" title="Pantone">Pantone</a> 300 C color). The same color-coding applies to the USB 3.0 Standard‑A plug.<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.0_spec-12">[12]</a>: sections 3.1.1.1 and 5.3.1.3

USB 3.0 also introduced a new Micro‑B cable plug, which consists of a standard USB 1.x/2.0 Micro‑B cable plug, with an additional 5-pin plug "stacked" beside it. That way, the USB 3.0 Micro‑B host receptacle preserves its backward compatibility with the USB 1.x/2.0 Micro‑B cable plug, allowing devices with USB 3.0 Micro‑B ports to run at USB 2.0 speeds on USB 2.0 Micro‑B cables. However, it is not possible to plug a USB 3.0 Micro‑B plug into a USB 2.0 Micro‑B receptacle, due to the physically larger connector.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pin_assignments">Pin assignments</h3></div>

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The connector has the same physical configuration as its predecessor but with five more pins.

The VBUS, D−, D+, and GND pins are required for USB 2.0 communication. The five additional USB 3.0 pins are two differential pairs and one ground (GND_DRAIN). The two additional differential pairs are for SuperSpeed data transfer; they are used for full duplex SuperSpeed signaling. The GND_DRAIN pin is for drain wire termination and to control EMI and maintain signal integrity.

<caption>USB 3.0 connector pin assignments<a href="#cite_note-usb3_cabledia-57">[57]</a>

</caption>

<th rowspan="2">Pin

</th>

<th rowspan="2">Color

</th>

<th colspan="2">Signal name

</th>

<th rowspan="2">Description

</th></tr>

<tr>

<th>A connector

</th>

<th>B connector

</th></tr>

<tr>

<td>Shell</td>

<td colspan="2">Shield</td>

<td style="text-align: left;">Metal housing

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>1

</td>

<td style="text-align: left;">Power

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>2

</td>

<td style="background: white;">White</td>

<td rowspan="2" style="text-align: left;">USB 2.0 differential pair

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>3

</td>

<td style="background: green; color: white;">Green</td>

<td colspan="2">D+

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>4

</td>

<td style="background: black; color: white;">Black</td>

<td style="text-align: left;">Ground for power return

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>5

</td>

<td rowspan="2" style="text-align: left;">SuperSpeed receiver differential pair

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>6

</td>

<td style="background: yellow;">Yellow</td>

<td>StdB_SSTX+

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>7

</td>

<td colspan="2">GND_DRAIN</td>

<td style="text-align: left;">Ground for signal return

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>8

</td>

<td style="background: purple; color: white;">Purple</td>

<td rowspan="2" style="text-align: left;">SuperSpeed transmitter differential pair

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>9

</td>

<td style="background: orange;">Orange</td>

<td>StdB_SSRX+

</td></tr>

<tr>

<th colspan="5">The USB 3.0 Powered‑B connector has two additional pins for power and ground supplied to the device.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a>

</th></tr>

<tr>

<td>10

</td>

<td style="text-align: left;">Power provided to device (Powered‑B only)

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>11

</td>

<td style="text-align: left;">Ground for DPWR return (Powered‑B only)

</td></tr></tbody></table>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Backward_compatibility">Backward compatibility</h3></div>

USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 (or earlier) Type‑A plugs and receptacles are designed to interoperate.

USB 3.0 Type‑B receptacles, such as those found on peripheral devices, are larger than in USB 2.0 (or earlier versions), and accept both the larger USB 3.0 Type‑B plug and the smaller USB 2.0 (or earlier) Type‑B plug. USB 3.0 Type‑B plugs are larger than USB 2.0 (or earlier) Type‑B plugs; therefore, USB 3.0 Type‑B plugs cannot be inserted into USB 2.0 (or earlier) Type‑B receptacles.

Micro USB 3.0 (Micro‑B) plug and receptacle are intended primarily for small portable devices such as smartphones, digital cameras and GPS devices. The Micro USB 3.0 receptacle is backward compatible with the Micro USB 2.0 plug.

A receptacle for <a href="ESATAp" title="ESATAp">eSATAp</a>, which is an eSATA/USB combo, is designed to accept USB Type‑A plugs from USB 2.0 (or earlier), so it also accepts USB 3.0 Type‑A plugs.

In January 2013 the USB group announced plans to update USB 3.0 to 10 Gbit/s (1250 MB/s).<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> The group ended up creating a new USB specification, USB 3.1, which was released on 31 July 2013,<a href="#cite_note-ReferenceC-60">[60]</a> replacing the USB 3.0 standard. The USB 3.1 specification takes over the existing USB 3.0's SuperSpeed USB transfer rate, now referred to as USB 3.1 Gen 1, and introduces a faster transfer rate called SuperSpeed USB 10 <a href="Gbit/s" class="mw-redirect" title="Gbit/s">Gbps</a>, corresponding to operation mode USB 3.1 Gen 2,<a href="#cite_note-3.1_SLUG-5">[5]</a> putting it on par with a single first-generation <a href="Thunderbolt_(interface)" title="Thunderbolt (interface)">Thunderbolt</a> channel. The new mode's logo features a caption stylized as SUPERSPEED+;<a href="#cite_note-LUG-61">[61]</a> this refers to the updated SuperSpeedPlus protocol. The USB 3.1 Gen 2 mode also reduces line encoding overhead to just 3% by changing the <a href="Encoding_scheme" class="mw-redirect" title="Encoding scheme">encoding scheme</a> to <a href="128b/132b" class="mw-redirect" title="128b/132b">128b/132b</a>, with raw data rate of 1,212 MB/s.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> The first USB 3.1 Gen 2 implementation demonstrated real-world transfer speeds of 7.2 Gbit/s.<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a>

The USB 3.1 specification includes the USB 2.0 specification while fully preserving its dedicated physical layer, architecture, and protocol in parallel. USB 3.1 specification defines the following operation modes:

<ul><li>USB 3.1 Gen 1 – newly marketed as SuperSpeed or SS, 5 Gbit/s signaling rate over 1 lane using 8b/10b encoding (raw data rate: 500 MB/s); replaced USB 3.0.</li>

<li>USB 3.1 Gen 2 – new, marketed as SuperSpeed+ or SS+, 10 Gbit/s signaling rate over 1 lane using 128b/132b encoding (raw data rate: 1212 MB/s).</li></ul>

The nominal data rate in bytes accounts for bit-encoding overhead. The physical SuperSpeed signaling bit rate is 5 Gbit/s. Since transmission of every byte takes 10 bit times, the raw data overhead is 20%, so the raw byte rate is 500 MB/s, not 625. Similarly, for Gen 2 link the encoding is 128b/132b, so transmission of 16 bytes physically takes 16.5 bytes, or 3% overhead. Therefore, the new raw byte-rate is 128/132 * 10 Gbit/s = 9.697 Gbit/s = 1212 MB/s. In reality any operation mode has additional link management and protocol overhead, so the best-case achievable data rates for the Gen 2 operation mode are of roughly below 800 MB/s for reading bulk transfers only.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-USB_3.2_spec_1.0-10">[10]</a>

The re-specification of USB 3.0 as "USB 3.1 Gen 1" was misused by some manufacturers to advertise products with signaling rates of only 5 Gbit/s as "USB 3.1" by omitting the defining generation.<a href="#cite_note-ars-2019-32-65">[65]</a>

On 25 July 2017, a press release from the USB 3.0 Promoter Group detailed a pending update to the <a href="USB-C" title="USB-C">USB Type‑C</a> specification, defining the doubling of bandwidth for existing USB‑C cables. Under the USB 3.2 specification, released 22 September 2017,<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.2_spec_1.0-10">[10]</a> existing SuperSpeed certified USB‑C 3.1 Gen 1 cables will be able to operate at 10 Gbit/s (up from 5 Gbit/s), and SuperSpeed+ certified USB‑C 3.1 Gen 2 cables will be able to operate at 20 Gbit/s (up from 10 Gbit/s). The increase in bandwidth is a result of multi-lane operation over existing wires that were intended for flip-flop capabilities of the USB‑C connector.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a>

The USB 3.2 standard includes the USB 2.0 specification with four dedicated wires on the physical layer. The Enhanced SuperSpeed System encompasses both, but separated – and in parallel to the USB 2.0 implementation:<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.2_spec_1.0-10">[10]</a>: Figure 3-2

<ul><li>SuperSpeed USB (based on SuperSpeed architecture and protocols):

<ul><li>USB 3.2 Gen 1×1 – newly marketed as SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps (replaces SuperSpeed or SS), 5 Gbit/s signaling rate over 1 lane using 8b/10b encoding (raw data rate: 500 MB/s); replaces USB 3.1 Gen 1, which replaced USB 3.0.</li></ul></li>

<li>SuperSpeedPlus USB (based on SuperSpeedPlus architecture and protocols):

<ul><li>USB 3.2 Gen 2×1 – newly marketed as SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps (replaces SuperSpeed+ or SS+),<a href="#cite_note-LUG-61">[61]</a> 10 Gbit/s signaling rate over 1 lane using 128b/132b encoding (raw data rate: 1212 MB/s); replaces USB 3.1 Gen 2.</li>

<li>USB 3.2 Gen 1×2 – new, 10 Gbit/s signaling rate over 2 lanes using 8b/10b encoding (raw data rate: 1000 MB/s).</li>

<li>USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 – new, marketed as SuperSpeed USB 20 Gbps, 20 Gbit/s signaling rate over 2 lanes using 128b/132b encoding (raw data rate: 2424 MB/s).</li></ul></li></ul>

As with the previous version, the same considerations around encoding and raw data rates apply. Although both Gen 1×2 and Gen 2(×1) signal at 10 Gbit/s, Gen 1×2 uses the older, less efficient 8b/10b line coding which results in a lower raw data rate compared with Gen 2(×1), though both using the newer SuperSpeedPlus protocol.<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.2_spec_1.0-10">[10]</a>: Figure 3-2

In May 2018, <a href="Synopsys" title="Synopsys">Synopsys</a> demonstrated the first USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 operation mode, where a Windows PC was connected to a storage device, reaching an average data rate of 1600 MB/s for reading bulk transmissions,<a href="#cite_note-Synopsis_demo-68">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-1st_demo-69">[69]</a> which is 66% of its raw throughput.

USB 3.2 is supported with the default Windows 10 USB drivers and in Linux kernels 4.18 and onwards.<a href="#cite_note-Synopsis_demo-68">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-1st_demo-69">[69]</a><a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a>

In February 2019, USB-IF simplified the marketing guidelines by excluding Gen 1×2 mode and required the SuperSpeed trident logos to include maximum transfer speed.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a><a href="#cite_note-3.2_SLUG-15">[15]</a>

Two-lane operation (USB 3.2 Gen 1×2, USB 3.2 Gen 2×2) is only possible with Full-Featured Type‑C connectors.<a href="#cite_note-USBC22-72">[72]</a>

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<caption>USB 3.2 specification operation modes

</caption>

<th><a href="USB_Implementers_Forum" title="USB Implementers Forum">USB-IF</a> recommended marketing name<a href="#cite_note-usb.org-17">[17]</a>

</th>

</th>

<th>USB 3.2 specification operation mode<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.2_spec_1.0-10">[10]</a>

</th>

<th>Older operation mode names (first publication)<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.0_spec-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-USB_3.1_spec-3">[3]</a>

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<th>Dual lane

</th>

<th><a href="Line_code" title="Line code">Encoding</a>

</th>

<th>Nominal signal rate<a href="#cite_note-USB_3.2_spec_1.0-10">[10]</a>

</th>

</th>

<th>Measured real-world throughput<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a>

</th>

<th><a href="USB#Connector_type_quick_reference" title="USB">Supporting connectors</a><a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a>

</th></tr>

<tr>

<td>SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>USB 3.2 Gen 1×1

</td>

<td>USB 3.0, USB 3.1 Gen 1 (USB 3.0)

</td>

<td rowspan="2" style="background:#FFC7C7;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-no">No

</td>

</td>

<td>5 Gbit/s

</td>

<td>0.5 GB/s

</td>

<td>≤ 0.45 GB/s

</td>

<td rowspan="2">SS Standard-[A, B], SS Micro-[A, B, AB], C

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps

</td>

</td>

<td>USB 3.2 Gen 2×1

</td>

<td>USB 3.1 Gen 2 (USB 3.1)

</td>

</td>

<td rowspan="2">10 Gbit/s

</td>

<td>1.2 GB/s

</td>

<td>≤ 0.8 GB/s

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td data-sort-value="" style="background: var(--background-color-interactive, #ececec); color: var(--color-base, inherit); vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="table-na">—

</td>

<td>USB 3.2 Gen 1×2

</td>

<td rowspan="2">— (USB 3.2)

</td>

<td rowspan="2" style="background:#9EFF9E;color:black;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center;" class="table-yes">Yes

</td>

<td>8b/10b

</td>

<td>1 GB/s

</td>

<td>≤ 0.70 GB/s

</td>

<td rowspan="2">C

</td></tr>

<tr>

<td>SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps

</td>

<td>

</td>

<td>USB 3.2 Gen 2×2

</td>

<td>128b/132b

</td>

<td>20 Gbit/s

</td>

<td>2.4 GB/s

</td>

<td>≤ 1.6 GB/s

</td></tr></tbody></table>

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<li><a href="Bus_(computing)" title="Bus (computing)">Computer bus</a></li>

<li><a href="Extensible_Host_Controller_Interface" title="Extensible Host Controller Interface">Extensible Host Controller Interface</a> (XHCI)</li>

<li><a href="List_of_device_bit_rates" class="mw-redirect" title="List of device bit rates">List of device bit rates § Peripheral</a></li>

<li><a href="Mobile_High-Definition_Link" title="Mobile High-Definition Link">Mobile High-Definition Link</a></li>

<li><a href="USB_hardware#Host_and_device_interface_receptacles" title="USB hardware">USB hardware § Host and device interface receptacles</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="USB_Implementers_Forum" title="USB Implementers Forum">USB Implementers Forum</a></li>

<li><a href="USB_hardware" title="USB hardware">Hardware</a>

<ul><li><a href="USB_hardware#Connectors" title="USB hardware">connectors</a></li>

<li><a href="USB_hardware#Cabling" title="USB hardware">cabling</a></li>

<li><a href="USB_hardware#Power" title="USB hardware">power</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Versions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="USB#Device_classes" title="USB">Device classes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="USB_mass_storage_device_class" title="USB mass storage device class">Mass storage</a>

<ul><li><a href="USB_flash_drive" title="USB flash drive">Flash drive</a></li>

<li><a href="USB_FlashCard" class="mw-redirect" title="USB FlashCard">FlashCard</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="USB_human_interface_device_class" title="USB human interface device class">Human interface</a></li>

<li><a href="USB_video_device_class" title="USB video device class">Video</a></li>

<li><a href="USB_communications_device_class" title="USB communications device class">Communications</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Security</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Juice_jacking" title="Juice jacking">Juice jacking</a></li>

<li><a href="BadUSB" title="BadUSB">BadUSB</a></li>

<li><a href="USB_flash_drive_security" title="USB flash drive security">USB flash drive security</a></li>

<li><a href="USB_killer" title="USB killer">USB killer</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="Ethernet_over_USB" title="Ethernet over USB">Ethernet over USB</a></li>

<li><a href="USB_decoration" title="USB decoration">Decoration</a></li>

<li><a href="USB-to-serial_adapter" title="USB-to-serial adapter">Serial adapter</a></li>

<li><a href="PoweredUSB" title="PoweredUSB">PoweredUSB</a></li>

<li><a href="WebUSB" title="WebUSB">WebUSB</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Common_external_power_supply" title="Common external power supply">Common external power supply</a> (for mobile phones)</li>

<li><a href="USB_Power_Delivery" class="mw-redirect" title="USB Power Delivery">USB Power Delivery</a></li>

<li><a href="PoweredUSB" title="PoweredUSB">PoweredUSB</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="Power_supply_unit_(computer)" title="Power supply unit (computer)">Computer power supply</a> (<a href="ATX" title="ATX">ATX</a>)</li>

<li><a href="Universal_Power_Adapter_for_Mobile_Devices" title="Universal Power Adapter for Mobile Devices">Universal Power Adapter for Mobile Devices</a> (IEEE P1823)</li>

<li>DC Power supply for notebook computer (<a href="IEC_62700" title="IEC 62700">IEC 62700</a>)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="System_bus" title="System bus">System bus</a></li>

<li><a href="Front-side_bus" title="Front-side bus">Front-side bus</a></li>

<li><a href="Daisy_chain_(electrical_engineering)" title="Daisy chain (electrical engineering)">Daisy chain</a></li>

<li><a href="Control_bus" title="Control bus">Control bus</a></li>

<li><a href="Address_bus" class="mw-redirect" title="Address bus">Address bus</a></li>

<li><a href="Bus_contention" title="Bus contention">Bus contention</a></li>

<li><a href="Bus_mastering" title="Bus mastering">Bus mastering</a></li>

<li><a href="Network_on_a_chip" title="Network on a chip">Network on a chip</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_interface_bit_rates#Computer_buses" title="List of interface bit rates">List of bus bandwidths</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Standards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Multibus" title="Multibus">Multibus</a></li>

<li><a href="Unibus" title="Unibus">Unibus</a></li>

<li><a href="VAXBI_bus" class="mw-redirect" title="VAXBI bus">VAXBI</a></li>

<li><a href="System_Management_Bus" title="System Management Bus">SMBus</a></li>

<li><a href="Europe_Card_Bus" title="Europe Card Bus">Europe Card Bus</a></li>

<li><a href="STEbus" title="STEbus">STEbus</a></li>

<li><a href="Zorro_II" title="Zorro II">Zorro II</a></li>

<li><a href="Zorro_III" title="Zorro III">Zorro III</a></li>

<li><a href="Computer_Automated_Measurement_and_Control" title="Computer Automated Measurement and Control">CAMAC</a></li>

<li><a href="FASTBUS" title="FASTBUS">FASTBUS</a></li>

<li><a href="HP_Precision_Bus" title="HP Precision Bus">HP Precision Bus</a></li>

<li><a href="NuBus" title="NuBus">NuBus</a></li>

<li><a href="TURBOchannel" title="TURBOchannel">TURBOchannel</a></li>

<li><a href="InfiniBand" title="InfiniBand">InfiniBand</a></li>

<li><a href="Ethernet" title="Ethernet">Ethernet</a></li>

<li><a href="PCI-X" title="PCI-X">PCI Extended (PCI-X)</a></li>

<li><a href="PCI_Express" title="PCI Express">PCI Express (PCIe)</a></li>

<li><a href="Compute_Express_Link" title="Compute Express Link">Compute Express Link (CXL)</a></li>

<li><a href="Direct_Media_Interface" title="Direct Media Interface">Direct Media Interface (DMI)</a></li>

<li><a href="RapidIO" title="RapidIO">RapidIO</a></li>

<li><a href="Intel_QuickPath_Interconnect" title="Intel QuickPath Interconnect">Intel QuickPath Interconnect</a></li>

<li><a href="NVLink" title="NVLink">NVLink</a></li>

<li><a href="HyperTransport" title="HyperTransport">HyperTransport</a>

<ul><li><a href="Infinity_Fabric" class="mw-redirect" title="Infinity Fabric">Infinity Fabric</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Intel_Ultra_Path_Interconnect" title="Intel Ultra Path Interconnect">Intel Ultra Path Interconnect</a></li>

<li><a href="Coherent_Accelerator_Processor_Interface" title="Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface">Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI)</a></li>

<li><a href="SpaceWire" title="SpaceWire">SpaceWire</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="Floppy_disk_drive_interface" title="Floppy disk drive interface">Floppy connector</a></li>

<li><a href="Parallel_ATA" title="Parallel ATA">Parallel ATA (PATA)</a></li>

<li><a href="HIPPI" title="HIPPI">HIPPI</a></li>

<li><a href="SATA" title="SATA">Serial ATA (SATA)</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Parallel_SCSI" title="Parallel SCSI">Parallel</a></li>

<li><a href="ESCON" title="ESCON">ESCON</a></li>

<li><a href="Fibre_Channel" title="Fibre Channel">Fibre Channel</a></li>

<li><a href="SATA_Express" title="SATA Express">SATAe</a></li>

<li>PCI Express (via <a href="Advanced_Host_Controller_Interface" title="Advanced Host Controller Interface">AHCI</a> or <a href="NVM_Express" title="NVM Express">NVMe</a> logical device interface)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Peripheral</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Apple_Desktop_Bus" title="Apple Desktop Bus">Apple Desktop Bus</a></li>

<li><a href="Atari_SIO" title="Atari SIO">Atari SIO</a></li>

<li><a href="Commodore_bus" title="Commodore bus">Commodore bus</a></li>

<li><a href="Lightning_(connector)" title="Lightning (connector)">Lightning</a></li>

<li><a href="IEEE_1284" title="IEEE 1284">IEEE-1284 (parallel port)</a></li>

<li><a href="IEEE_1394" title="IEEE 1394">IEEE-1394 (FireWire)</a></li>

<li><a href="I%C2%B2C" title="I²C">I²C</a> (<a href="ACCESS.bus" title="ACCESS.bus">ACCESS.bus</a>, <a href="Power_Management_Bus" title="Power Management Bus">PMBus</a>, <a href="System_Management_Bus" title="System Management Bus">SMBus</a>)</li>

<li><a href="Parallel_SCSI" title="Parallel SCSI">Parallel SCSI</a></li>

<li><a href="Profibus" title="Profibus">Profibus</a></li>

<li><a href="Camera_Link" title="Camera Link">Camera Link</a></li>

<li><a href="PCI_Express#PCI_Express_External_Cabling" title="PCI Express">External PCIe</a></li>

<li><a href="Thunderbolt_(interface)" title="Thunderbolt (interface)">Thunderbolt</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Audio</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="ADAT_Lightpipe" title="ADAT Lightpipe">ADAT Lightpipe</a></li>

<li><a href="Intel_High_Definition_Audio" title="Intel High Definition Audio">Intel HD Audio</a></li>

<li><a href="McASP" title="McASP">McASP</a></li>

<li><a href="TOSLINK" title="TOSLINK">TOSLINK</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Portable</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="ExpressCard" title="ExpressCard">ExpressCard</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Embedded</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Multidrop_bus" title="Multidrop bus">Multidrop bus</a></li>

<li><a href="CoreConnect" title="CoreConnect">CoreConnect</a></li>

<li><a href="Wishbone_(computer_bus)" title="Wishbone (computer bus)">Wishbone</a></li>

<li><a href="SLIMbus" title="SLIMbus">SLIMbus</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Interfaces are listed by their speed in the (roughly) ascending order, so the interface at the end of each section should be the fastest. Category</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

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<ul><li><a href="Graphics_tablet" title="Graphics tablet">Graphics tablet</a></li>

<li><a href="Game_controller" title="Game controller">Game controller</a></li>

<li><a href="Light_pen" title="Light pen">Light pen</a></li>

<li><a href="Computer_mouse" title="Computer mouse">Mouse</a>

<ul><li><a href="Optical_mouse" title="Optical mouse">Optical</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Optical_trackpad" title="Optical trackpad">Optical trackpad</a></li>

<li><a href="Pointing_stick" title="Pointing stick">Pointing stick</a></li>

<li><a href="Touchpad" title="Touchpad">Touchpad</a></li>

<li><a href="Touchscreen" title="Touchscreen">Touchscreen</a></li>

<li><a href="Trackball" title="Trackball">Trackball</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="Computer_keyboard" title="Computer keyboard">Keyboard</a></li>

<li><a href="Image_scanner" title="Image scanner">Image scanner</a></li>

<li><a href="Graphics_card" title="Graphics card">Graphics card</a>

<li><a href="Microphone" title="Microphone">Microphone</a></li>

<li><a href="Refreshable_braille_display" title="Refreshable braille display">Refreshable braille display</a></li>

<li><a href="Sound_card" title="Sound card">Sound card</a>

<ul><li><a href="Sound_chip" title="Sound chip">Sound chip</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Webcam" title="Webcam">Webcam</a>

<ul><li><a href="Softcam" title="Softcam">Softcam</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Output_device" title="Output device">Output devices</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Computer_monitor" title="Computer monitor">Monitor</a>

<ul><li><a href="Electronic_visual_display" title="Electronic visual display">Screen</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Refreshable_braille_display" title="Refreshable braille display">Refreshable braille display</a></li>

<li><a href="Printer_(computing)" title="Printer (computing)">Printer</a>

<ul><li><a href="Plotter" title="Plotter">Plotter</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Computer_speakers" title="Computer speakers">Speakers</a></li>

<li><a href="Sound_card" title="Sound card">Sound card</a></li>

<li><a href="Graphics_card" title="Graphics card">Graphics card</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Removable_media" title="Removable media">Removable data storage</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Floppy_disk" title="Floppy disk">Floppy disk</a></li>

<li><a href="Optical_disc" title="Optical disc">Optical disc</a>

<li><a href="Flash_memory" title="Flash memory">Flash memory</a>

<ul><li><a href="Memory_card" title="Memory card">Memory card</a></li>

<li><a href="USB_flash_drive" title="USB flash drive">USB flash drive</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Computer_case" title="Computer case">Computer case</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Central_processing_unit" title="Central processing unit">Central processing unit</a>

<ul><li><a href="Microprocessor" title="Microprocessor">Microprocessor</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Motherboard" title="Motherboard">Motherboard</a></li>

<li><a href="Computer_memory" title="Computer memory">Memory</a>

<li><a href="Computer_data_storage" title="Computer data storage">Data storage</a>

<li><a href="Power_supply_unit_(computer)" title="Power supply unit (computer)">Power supply</a>

<li><a href="MOSFET" title="MOSFET">MOSFET</a>

<ul><li><a href="Power_MOSFET" title="Power MOSFET">Power MOSFET</a></li>

<li><a href="Network_interface_controller" title="Network interface controller">Network interface controller</a></li>

<li><a href="Fax_modem" title="Fax modem">Fax modem</a></li>

<li><a href="Expansion_card" title="Expansion card">Expansion card</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Computer_port_(hardware)" title="Computer port (hardware)">Ports</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Ethernet" title="Ethernet">Ethernet</a></li>

<li><a href="Thunderbolt_(interface)" title="Thunderbolt (interface)">Thunderbolt</a></li>

<li><a href="Phone_connector_(audio)" title="Phone connector (audio)">Analog audio jack</a></li>

<li><a href="DisplayPort" title="DisplayPort">DisplayPort</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Obsolete</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="IEEE_1394" title="IEEE 1394">FireWire</a> (IEEE 1394)</li>

<li><a href="Parallel_port" title="Parallel port">Parallel port</a></li>

<li><a href="Serial_port" title="Serial port">Serial port</a></li>

<li><a href="Serial_ATA" class="mw-redirect" title="Serial ATA">eSATA</a></li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="History_of_computing_hardware" title="History of computing hardware">History of computing hardware</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_computing_hardware_(1960s%E2%80%93present)" title="History of computing hardware (1960s–present)">History of computing hardware (1960s–present)</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_pioneers_in_computer_science" title="List of pioneers in computer science">List of pioneers in computer science</a></li></ul>

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