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Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (philip.greenspun.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?::I’m beginning to think that the Windows PC that I built in 2015 is ready for retirement (though if Joe Biden can be president at 78, maybe this PC can last until 2029?). In looking at new des…

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[–] Dkarma 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is about cost. The standard USB ports are far cheaper and they probably already have a billion of them on hand. Plus all the board layouts already use standard USB for their layouts. Also you're not really getting any advantage from the USB c size wise or performance wise.

Further more now you'd have to make USB c to whatever form cables and make customers buy these new cables.

If u had to choose between 2 computers and 1 made u buy completely new cables for every peripheral which would u buy?

[–] shalafi 2 points 10 months ago

billion of them on hand

Been thinking that for a long time! For example, I can imagine Chinese warehouses jammed with micro USB connectors. Want to build a low-cost widget? Meh, save some pennies per unit and put a micro on there.