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Universal Serial Bus 4 (USB4™)
Specification
Apple Inc.
HP Inc.
Intel Corporation
Microsoft Corporation
Renesas Corporation
STMicroelectronics
Texas Instruments
Version 1.0 with Errata and ECN through May 4, 2020
June 2020

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Release History
Version
Comments
Issue Date
1.0
First release
August 2019
1.0 with Errata and ECN through
May 4, 2020
Includes errata and ECN through May 4,
2020 as part of the specification text.
June 2020

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Acknowledgement of Technical Contribution
The authors of this specification would like to recognize the following people who participated
in the USB4 Specification technical work group.
Apple Inc. – Promoter Company Employees
Majd Abu Tayeh
Nimrod Agmon
Lior Aloni
Brian Baek
Omer Bar-Lev
Moshe Benyamini
Gopu Bhaskar
Carlos Calderon
David Conroy
Bill Cornelius
Scott Deandrea
William Ferry
Amit Flanter
Itay Franko
Radia Gantous
Alex Gerber
Mark Goikhman
Nir Guetta
Yair Hershkovitz
Scott Jackson
Husam Khashiboun
Alan Kobayashi
Alexei Kosut
Christine Krause
Dmitri Krichevsky
Alex Lozovik
Rachel Menes
Shlomi Mor
Shlomi Museri
Mona Omari
Tal Ostro
Arie Peled
Collin Pieper
Idan Reller
Reese Schreiber
Oleg Schtofenmaher
Etan Shirron
Ori Moshe Stern
Jose Tierno
Maxim Tsudik
Anatoly Uskach
Jeff Wilcox
Dan Wilson
Ohad Zalcman
HP Inc. – Promoter Company Employees
Roger Benson
Marcus Benzel
Alan Berkema
Kenneth Chan
Frank Chen
Phil Chen
Hosup Chung
Glen Dower
Mark Lessman
Nam Nguyen
Roger Pearson
Kenneth Smith
Chris Tabarez
Intel Corporation – Promoter Company Employees
Nausheen Ansari
Noam Arzy
Alexandre Audier
Binata Bhattacharyya
Huimin Chen
Hengju Cheng
Salauddin Choudhury
John Crouter
Maxim Dan
Jhuda Dayan
Yoni Dishon
Eran Galil
Saranya Gopal
Venkataramani
Gopalakrishnan
Raul Gutierrez
Michael Gouzenfeld
Mickey Gutman
Benjamin Hacker
Yaniv Hayat
Uri Hermoni
Alon Horn
Abdul Ismail
Abhilash K V
Ziv Kabiry
Vijaykumar Kadgi
Vijay Kasturi
Sergey Khaykin
Lev Kolomiets
Vladislav Kopzon
Efraim Kugman
Edmond Lau
Uriel Lemberger
Yun Ling
Guobin Liu
Balaji Manoharan
Liran Manor
Uma Medepalli
Assaf Mevorach
Hezi Naaman
Ohad Navon
Naod Negussie
CheeLim Nge
Leonid Plaks
Duane Quiet
Rajaram Regupathy
Reuven Rozic
Oren Salomon
Zeeshan Sarwar

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Brad Saunders
Leonid Shaposhnik
Ehud Shoor
Ari Sharon
Uri Soloveychik
Einat Surijan
Aviel Uzan
Karthi Vadivelu
Alex Vekker
Chen Vrubel
Stephanie Wallick
Tzewen Wang
Sarel Wechsler
Ady Weiss
Vitaly Zhivov
Gal Yedidia
Vladimir Yudovich
Microsoft Corporation – Promoter Company Employees
Randy Aull
Jim Belesiu
Martin Borve
Anthony Chen
Jesse Chen
Matt Chung
Aacer Daken
Rajib Dutta
Mark Friend
Philip Froese
David Hargrove
Robbie Harris
Kit Hui
Toby Nixon
Rahul Ramadas
Andrea Severson
Kiran Shastry
Nathan Sherman
Ji Sun
Shyamal Varma
Renesas Corporation – Promoter Company Employees
Tam Do
Robert Dunstan
Philip Leung
Kiichi Muto
Ziba Nami
Hajime Nozaki
Raman Sargis
Yoshiyuki Tomoda
Starry Tsai
Jia Wei
Toshifumi Yamaoka
STMicroelectronics – Promoter Company Employees
Nathalie Ballot
Joel Huloux
Gerard Mas
Texas Instruments – Promoter Company Employees
Mike Campbell
Anant Gole
Craig Greenburg
Michael Koltun IV
Sai Karthik Rajaraman
Anwar Sadat
Cory Stewart
Sue Vining
Deric Waters
Gregory Watkins
Contributor Company Employees
ACON, Advanced-
Connectek, Inc.
Victory Chen
Conrad Choy
Vicky Chuang
Jessica Feng
Sharon Hsiao
Wayne Wang
Advanced Micro Devices
Dennis Au
Nat Barbiero
Jason Chang
Michael Comai
Walter Fry
Will Harris
Jason Hawken
Jim Hunkins
Ling Kong
Scott Ogle
Victor Salim
Joseph Scanlon
Peter Teng
Allion Labs, Inc.
Howard Chang
Casper Lee
Brian Shih
Analogix
Semiconductor, Inc.
Greg Stewart
Haijian Sui
Yueke Tang
Ning Zhu