I swear everything about this makes perfect sense and serves a purpose.pic.twitter.com/GWAhaoeSig
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Ugh, this is worse than USB 2.0. I don't know what I expected. So there's some low-frequency signaling they use to negotiate, but it's completely silly (and they didn't even future-proof it so they had to tack on another modulation scheme to advertise SuperSpeedPlus).
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