In the last 14 years, the Universal Serial Bus (USB) has become the standard interface to connect devices to a computer. Whether it’s an external hard drive, a camera, the mouse, a printer, or a ...

In a USB function – an embedded device with a USB interface – there is a USB peripheral controller chip. As shown in Figure 2, this chip has two key functions: it interfaces to the USB system ...

New SuperSpeed USB 3.0 drives include models from (clockwise from left) Buffalo, Iomega, Seagate, and Western Digital. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS: ROBERT CARDIN When you’re in front of your PC, waiting for ...

USB port colors range from black and blue to red and purple. Each color has its own meaning, which is worth understanding if ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--COMPUTEX 2015 – SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today launched two new, USB 3.0 flash drives – the 128GB* SanDisk Ultra ...

The meaning of the yellow color-coding on a USB port indicates that it supports Always On and Passive Power Delivery (via Corsair ). This means that even if your PC is turned off, the USB port ...

In a first for Apple iPads, the Lighting Port on the new iPad Pro supports the faster USB 3.0 -- but still somewhat old -- standard. That means you'll see data transfer speeds double and possibly ...

In the six months that have passed after the last USB-C article has been released, I have thought up a bunch of ways that these articles could have been improved. It’s, of course, normal to have such ...

Intel demonstrated a working version of USB 3.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Here's why it will make eSATA and FireWire obsolete. When USB 3.0 is expected to hit the market ...

Drobo's products have come a long way over the years. The company started with a 4-bay BeyondRAID array with a FireWire connection that was sold in one form or another for quite a few years, and has ...

Intel will tell you its new high-speed interconnect technology, Thunderbolt, is not in competition with Universal Serial Bus (USB), the ubiquitous standard for connecting computers with other devices.

The state of USB Type-C audio and the new market for compatible headphones and dongles is, quite frankly, a trainwreck. Headphones sometimes only work with specific smartphone brands, dongles don’t ...