Can’t we, please, have just a fast com port with 5V? Everything else should be made programmatically, without touching the hardware. A cable should be just a cable. A few wires, nothing more.
“In order to hit 80Gbps, passive cables (which are the cheap ones) are strictly limited to roughly 0.8 to 1m in length. That means if you need a 2m cable for your desk setup, you must buy a certified active USB 4 80Gbps cable, which contains a tiny signal boosting chip.”
Can’t we, please, have just a fast com port with 5V? Everything else should be made programmatically, without touching the hardware. A cable should be just a cable. A few wires, nothing more.
The article kinda addresses that:
“In order to hit 80Gbps, passive cables (which are the cheap ones) are strictly limited to roughly 0.8 to 1m in length. That means if you need a 2m cable for your desk setup, you must buy a certified active USB 4 80Gbps cable, which contains a tiny signal boosting chip.”
NO.