Comment on Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
USB-C is very hard to manufacture and expensive as fuck as a result.
thats why.
Especially when most devices don’t need the bandwidth or power needs of USB-C.
patatahooligan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Source? Why is it expensive?
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Pretty sure this person is just talking out of their ass. I found one source from four years ago that showed a price difference of about a buck to manufacture. Yes, that is more expensive, but passing that dollar onto the consumer for some USB-C ports on a motherboard seems pretty reasonable, and by now I’m sure that gap has decreased significantly.
dustyData@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Some of the implementations are pretty expensive, usually the ones found on phones that need to do everything. But they brought the price down with a myriad of different feature supports so you can progressively wind down costs, but with it, features. Not all USB-C ports are made equal.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I dont remember off the top of my head, but it has like 22 or 24 very very fine wires in it, that have to be lined up perfectly on both sides of the connector to be soldered to equally small pads.
So its much more labor and time intensive to make a USB-C connector, compared to a USB Type A, which has big bulky cables and equally bulky (comparatively speaking) pads.
USB Micro/Mini used tiny wires too, but again… only about 2-4. So far less time and labor to line them up, vs the 22-24 conductors inside the Type-C connector.