A reversible USB cable of the new standard "Type-C" that will allow us to use either direction of USB and no mistake is coming to the end of the year

Also in December 2013Development was being toldNew standard of USB connector "Type-CHowever, it was revealed that the product image under development was announced, it became an image close to the Lightning cable after being miniaturized. It is scheduled to be released within 2014, and the subsequent USB terminals are expected to be unified into Type-C.

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A black cable in the figure is an image image of the new USB terminal "USB Type-C". Terminals that are smaller than the blue conventional cable look like the shape and size close to the current Micro-USB terminal. Because this is a predicted image at the development stage, the design may be changed.


Impression that PC terminal side terminal is also close to Lightning terminal used for iPhone series etc. It is said that it will become a reversible design that the front and back of the connector will be common, and this is likely to be similar to the Lightning cable.


This new connector is supposed to be "supplement to the USB 3.1 standard (supplement to the USB 3.1 specification)" and will be able to realize a transfer rate of up to 10 Gbps.

In the past, the USB terminal had full-size Type-A and Type-B, and Mini-USB and Micro-USB also had Type-A and Type-B. This was aimed at matching the tree structure of the equipment connection by clarifying the direction of the cable, but in the newly established Type-C, terminals of the same shape are provided at both ends It is likely to be done.

There is still the possibility that the USB Type-C is still under consideration due to specification / design under consideration, but it is expected to be confirmed in mid-2014, gradually the product will appear on the market It is likely to become.

In the EU alreadyThe charge standard of smartphone is unified to Micro-USBAlthough it has been decided that many manufacturers have agreed, Apple is forced to adopt Micro-USB instead of Lightning by the time Apple issues the next "iPhone 7", but this time the new standard If it is "Type-C", it can be inserted and used like Lightning without distinction between the front and back, so the influence seems to be minimized.

By the way, Apple's Lightning, which is said to have no back and front,In fact there is a back and frontdoing.