Here's What Every Different USB Port Type Actually Means

C, and USB Type-B ports all provide data transfers and power delivery, though the latter is much less common on modern ...

How Do You Tell What Type Of USB Ports You Have?

To identify the specific USB ports and connectors on your devices, you can simply look at their shape and color, or check ...
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Samtec USB3-A and -B series USB 3.0 receptacles: SuperSpeed USB 3.0 receptacles have through-hole terminations

The USB3-A and -B series of SuperSpeed USB 3.0-certified A- and B-type receptacles, respectively, have through-hole terminations. The mating USBC3 series is available with an A-type plug on one end ...
Ars Technica

Strange question: are USB cables with male A-type connectors on both ends "a thing"?

Subject line says it all. I'm looking to connect an Xbox Series S/X controller to my PC via USB cable, and have a USB-A female/USB-C male adapter, but I'm trying to remember whether I would also have ...
Embedded

USB Type-C and power delivery 101 – Ports and connections

USB Type-C is the newly introduced and powerful interconnect standard for USB. When paired with the new Power Delivery (PD) specification, Type-C offers enhancements to the existing USB 3.1 ...
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Understanding USB On-The-Go

The USB specification introduced a simple and inexpensive infrastructure for easily connecting multiple external peripherals to a PC. That was several years ago; today, more than 500 million ...