It also gives an indication of whether two things were produced around the same ...

echelon · on Jan 6, 2020

Now that's just brilliant. It hasn't seen wide enough adoption for this to happen yet, but imagine all the USB standards and processors and whatnot did the same.

That's just so simple it's genius.

"That 2020 motherboard won't run USB 2025"

We really need this.

Please Intel, Broadcom, Nvidia, etc. folks reading this. Please.

MereInterest · on Jan 6, 2020

It's also really nice for convincing people that things are out of date. It is a lot easier to defend targeting "ANSI C" than it is to defend targeting "C89", even though it shouldn't be.

PaulHoule · on Jan 6, 2020

Those firms don't have much control of the rate technology is adopted.

Look at how slow USB-C has been to come on. Look at how 802.11ax has gone nowhere. Or how Intel has been dragging its feet with PCIe4.

bronson · on Jan 6, 2020

Absolutely this. “Hey, this 2025 motherboard runs USB 2020 right?” “Nope!”

close04 · on Jan 6, 2020

> Look at how 802.11ax has gone nowhere

802.11ax is WiFi 6. We can assume it will get somewhere once it gets a fully fledged launch.

jedberg · on Jan 6, 2020

Except that your 2025 motherboard will run USB 2025, even though it’s the same as USB 2020. The marketing people just didn’t want to write USB 2020 on there.

But since USB won’t actually Change until 2030 it doesn’t matter, right?