The actual announcement from USB.org [1], I had to go to official source just to make sure this wasn't a joke or prank.<p>Why didn't they just include it with USB4? It wasn't that long ago. But then I checked on Wiki, [2] turns out it has been <i>three</i> years since the release of USB4 spec 1.0.<p>I am not even sure if there are that many USB4 motherboard / laptop on the market. I still mostly see USB3.x labels.<p>And USB4 v2, at 80Gbps will be faster than Thunderbolt 4. This reminded me of Anadntech's [3] discovery of "Thunderbolt 5" and "USB 80G". So will the next version be called Thunderbolt 4 v2? If not, why not just call this new 80Gbps USB ( likely many changes in PHY ) USB5?<p>[1] <a href="https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/USB%20PG%20USB4%20Version%202.0%2080Gbps%20Announcement_FINAL.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/USB%20PG%20U...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB4" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB4</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/16858/intel-executive-posts-thunderbolt-5-photo-80-gbps-and-pam3-then-deletes-it" rel="nofollow">https://www.anandtech.com/show/16858/intel-executive-posts-t...</a>