下一代USB接头将可正反插

新华网12月5日电 据科技博客Gizmodo文章，现在的USB接头我们已经使用了多年，负责制定USB 3.0规格的组织USB 3.0 Promoter Group宣布，新一代连接器的研发工作已经展开，这种新型连接器名为Type-C，相比现有USB接头，Type-C将在兼容性方面取得突破，从而更方便用户的使用，同时允许厂商生产更薄的电子设备。

Type-C的设计“将令全新的超薄手机、平板电脑、笔记本和台式机等设备有可能出现”，它大约只有微型USB的尺寸。更为重要的是， Type-C支持正反插功能。

你可能已经猜想到，新接口标准的出现会让旧版USB接头逐渐被淘汰。不管怎么说，变薄变细是“设计中的进化趋势”。

现在还不清楚Type-C连接器的数据传输和处理表现如何，但它应该会配套10Gbps的3.1线缆。预计到2014年年中，USB 3.0 Promoter Group将能够确定新一代连接器的所有细节，让我们拭目以待。

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There\'s Going To Be a New, Reversible USB Plug

After years of subjecting us to fumbling and rotating cables blindly behind devices around the world, the powers that (US) be have decided to make a Universal Serial Bus plug that is reversible.

In a press release, the USB 3.0 Promoter Group—that\'s a thing, it really is!—just announced a new Type-C connector. Designed to "enable an entirely new super-thin class of devices from phones to tablets, to 2-in-1s, to laptops to desktops", the new connector will be around the size of a Micro USB plug. Perhaps even more importantly, though, it will finally be reversible.

By now, you may\'ve figured that the new standard will break compatibility with existing USB connectors. And anyway, there will probably be a slew of converters and a long ol\' tapering period during a changeover.

It\'s currently unclear what the data and power handling capabilities of the new Type-C connector will be, but it will presumably sit alongside the forthcoming 10Gbps 3.1 cable. Either way, the USB 3.0 Promoter Group expects that specifications will be finalized by the middle of 2014. We\'re excited to see what happens.