Hi, I'm Bernie Thompson. I'm the
founder of Plugable
Technologies. So today we're
launching our USB4-HUB3A.
The hub looks simple. It's got
three downstream USB-C ports and
it's got its own power.
And one downstream USBA port,
and then the connection back to
the laptop.
So the Plugable USB4-HUB3A using
Intel's Goshen Ridge chip set
has really great forward and
backward compatibility with
newer and older systems and
newer and older devices. So we
wanted to show that on the
devices side, and this is pretty
cool. Connected to the Mac book
pro here we have the Plugable
USB4-HUB3A and then off of its
downstream USB port. We've got a
USB3 hub, a 10 port version. So
now I have ten USB3 ports at
full five gigabit per second
performance on all of those
ports. And then off of one of
those ports, we have connected a
Plugable USB2, two port hub. and
off of those, we have connected
two USB1, one devices, the
oldest possible USB standard,
and through that, we have this
keyboard and mouse connected. So
we've got three major
generations of USB technology,
the USB4 Thunderbolt 4
generation of technology, the
USB3 generation of technology
and the USB2 generation of
technology, all connected
together, daisy chained and
working perfectly with the very
latest system, Apple MacBook Pro
with the M1 Max chip. And we've
got two displays connected and
we're charging the MacBook Pro.
So this is the full potential of
USB realized, especially
highlighting USBs great forward
and backward compatibility.
So the Goshen Ridge chip can
support two 4k displays at 60
Hertz or a 5k display at 60
Hertz or an 8K display at 30
Hertz. What we're showing here
on the desk is two 4k displays
running at 60 Hertz. One of them
with an included USBC to HDMI
adapter. We include that in the
box and make sure that it's one
that works great with the hub.
and then we have a second one,
an optional one that's not
included in the box, that we're
using here for this setup to
connect the second monitor. And
then on the laptop side, any
laptop, that supports USB-C on
the Mac side will work at full
function, meaning the full
function of the laptop itself.
On the windows side, it's any
USBC windows system with a few
exceptions of some older
Thunderbolt 3 systems that don't
have upgradable firmware. You
just have to be on the lookout
for those, but if you've got a
standard, just USB-C Windows
laptop, or you've got, uh, any
sort of, um, newer system from
2020 and later that is
Thunderbolt 4 USB4 compatible,
those will all work.
You can see here in the setup
that we've just got a single
cable back to the MacBook Pro
and the hub is charging the
MacBook Pro. The hub supports a
maximum charge rate of 60 Watts,
which is in this case less than
the maximum that the MacBook can
support, but that's not a
problem. USB-C charging is smart
and the two sides negotiate to
the common kind of power level.
And 60 Watts is enough to be
using the laptop for normal use
and still have the battery be
charging even while you're using
it. And certainly while you're
not using it, it's going to
charge quite quickly. Now the
downstream USB-C ports on the
hub, did they support charging,
you know, three laptops on those
downstream ports? No, the
downstream ports support
standard type C USB power, uh, 5
volt, 3 amps. So a total of 15
Watts on each of those
downstream ports. almost all
phones are, able to be charged
at close to a full rate.
So there you go. That's the
plugable USB4-HUB3A using
Intel's Goshen Ridge chip set,
supporting the latest USB
standards with USB4 and
Thunderbolt 4 certified. Uh, if
you have any questions at all,
we'd love to hear from you. Just
comment below.