Abstract

Abstract: The USB4 standard was announced in March with little public information (and lots of speculation). The standard is expected to be released publicly in the middle of the year. This talk will give an overview of USB4 and some thoughts on its use in Chromebooks. (If the spec has not yet become public then some of the details may need to be left vague!)

Bio: Mark Hayter is currently a visitor from industry with the Computer Architecture team in the Computer Lab. He is Sr Engineering Director in the Chrome OS Hardware team at Google. The team is responsible for reference implementations and developing new technologies for Chromebooks. Prior to that he was involved in systems architecture at several semiconductor companies, being VP of Systems Engineering at P.A. Semi, Inc. (acquired by Apple Inc.), Senior Manager of Hardware Systems Engineering at Broadcom Corporation and System Architect at SiByte, Inc. Earlier, he was at the Digital Equipment Corporation Systems Research Center. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.