Looks like not at all, based on this rendering:


That's good at least. A Type-C to Lightning cable would have been really frustrating had they both gone with exposed pins on the plug side.

Yeah, I'm sure there will still be PLENTY of people who try it and screw up their electronics, but those folks are going to mess things up no matter what any company does.

I hope the module takes up significantly less space on a motherboard than the old ports did. It would be great if we could fit 3 ports where there was once only room for 1 or 2.

One might hope that every "type C" cable will be "PD-aware", but you never really know. On the other hand, the market seems to survive with several variants on HDMI cables (did you want yours to support Ethernet?) and multiple categories of Ethernet cables.

Those wattage numbers are fantastic, though. That's enough to charge most "ultrabook" laptops, if not the bigger gaming models. Certainly, you can see these cables leading to the rapid demise of cheap wall warts for external USB hard drives and other such devices. If we're lucky, they'll make a big logo/branding thing out of future USB 3.1 hubs to make it clear which PD variants they support.