USB Type-C 2.1 specification released with significant improvements

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You are about to witness a new era of power over USB as you may have to say goodbye to power bricks or various outlets as the new USB TYpe-C revision has just dropped and it features Interesting improvements, and one of them is the fact that USB Type-C will soon be able to deliver up to 240W of power. In short, it’s more than enough to power your gaming laptops and any other electronic device you own.

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All thanks to the new USB Type-C 2.1 revision and of course the biggest change is the 240W specification bump we have witnessed. Previously, Type-C connectors were limited to delivering 20V at 5A, which meant they couldn’t exceed 100W.

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Even 100W was impressive for standard laptops or your flagship smartphones, but if you look at modern gaming laptops with overclocked desktop CPUs or GPUs, 100W was not enough to keep it on for a long time. .

The new USB Type-C revision gives you switching support up to 48V at 5A, resulting in peak power of 240W, which means all your laptop needs can be powered by a single USB cable that will soon become universal. This optional power upgrade requires the new Extended Power Range (EPR) cables instead of the Standard Power Range SPR cables we have access to these days.

This means that SPR cables will soon be replaced by EPR cables. But at the same time, we have to understand the fact that it is possible that devices that do not require as much power will continue to use the standard USB Type-C cables available in the market.