Industry Expert Blogs

USB Type-C makes USB so awesome you can read about how it makes the world a greener place in Scientific American.

Or you can read a dazzlingly scintilating article here

(The meat of this article is below this section, and before the Elephant Jokes, so skip this section if you don’t care about the history of USB power and it’s problems.)

USB Charging before USB 3.1 (That means USB 3.1 Gen 1 or USB 3.0 Reborn)

USB 3.0 doubled the amount of power you could draw from 500mA at 5V to 900mA at 5V, or from 2.5W to 4.5 W.