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Why aren’t motherboards mostly USB-C by now?
(philip.greenspun.com)
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I think the relevant part of my original comment might've been misunderstood -- I'll edit to clarify that but I'm already aware that the 16 "GPU-assigned" lanes are coming directly from the CPU (including when doing 2x8, if the board is designed in this way -- the GPU-assigned lanes aren't what I'm getting at here).
This doesn't really address what I was getting at though. The OP's point was basically "the reason there isn't more USB is because there's not enough bandwidth - here are the numbers". The missing bandwidth they're mentioning is correct, but the reality is that we already design boards with more ports than bandwidth - hence why it doesn't seem like a great answer despite being a helpful addition to the discussion.