In addition to USB version, buyers select USB cables based on connector type. The Engineering360 SpecSearch database provides information about these types of products. USB Type A connectors have a ...

Governments around the world are banning USB-A on tech products and moving us into a USB-C era. Let’s salute 30 years of the USB standard.

In the United States, at least three major phone brands have embraced Type-C to Type-C chargers and cables – Apple, Samsung, ...

and a very prolific reviewer of USB Type-C connectors on Amazon. The latest cable he tested destroyed his test equipment, including a $1500 Chromebook Pixel 2 (link dead, try Internet Archive).

USB connectors are used with Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard ports. USB is an external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of 12 Mbps in its version 1.1 and 480Mbps in its version 2.0.