TALIX 240W USB-C Braided Cable: An E-Marker That Says Lenovo
TALIX's 6.6 ft, 240W braided USB-C cable. Its e-marker confirms 5A and EPR, but names Lenovo as its vendor - not TALIX, and not a chip maker.
This is TALIX’s braided USB-C cable, sold on Amazon as a “USB C to USB C Cable, 240W PD3.2 EPR Fast Charging Cord (5A, 6.6FT)”. The box calls it the “TALIX USB-C Braided Cable 240W”. It’s a passive charging cable with USB 2.0 data, rated for 240W. Its e-marker backs up the power claim, and then names a company that has nothing to do with the listing.
The specs
| Brand | TALIX |
| Listing | USB C to USB C Cable, 240W PD3.2 EPR Fast Charging Cord (5A, 6.6FT) |
| Data | USB 2.0 (480 Mbps) |
| Power | 240W - 5A, EPR |
| Type | Passive |
| Length | 6.6 ft (2 m) |
| E-marker vendor | Lenovo |
USB Connection Information read the cable as: Passive, USB 2.0 (480 Mbps), 5 A, EPR - Lenovo.
Why a USB 2.0 cable has an e-marker
A USB-C cable carries an e-marker when it’s rated for high speed or high power - either one is enough. This cable is slow for data, since 480 Mbps is the USB 2.0 floor, but it’s rated for 5A and 240W, far past the 3A and 60W a plain cable is allowed. Carrying 5A is only safe if the cable can prove it, and the e-marker is that proof. Without it, every charger would hold the cable to 3A. Background in the e-marker guide .
This is the most common kind of e-marked cable: built for charging a laptop, with no interest in fast data.
Lenovo, not TALIX and not the chip maker
The chip’s vendor field reads Lenovo. That’s the unusual part.
Cables in this library usually report one of two things:
- The brand on the sleeve. The Anker 240W cable used for our charger tests reports Anker.
- The company that made the chip. Both OWC cables, the Thunderbolt 4 and Thunderbolt 5 , report Lintes Technology.
Lenovo is neither. It’s a laptop maker, not TALIX, and not known for making e-marker chips. The vendor field holds whatever vendor ID was written into the chip when it was programmed, so a Lenovo ID most likely came from a reference design or a batch first built for Lenovo. We can’t tell which from the cable alone.
What matters for charging is that the rest of the chip checks out: it declares 5A and EPR, and that’s what a charger reads before going past 60W.
“PD3.2” on the listing
A cable doesn’t negotiate a Power Delivery version. The charger and the device do that. A cable only declares its limits: current, voltage and speed. “PD3.2 EPR” on a cable listing means it’s built for the chargers that use the 240W tier, and the e-marker agrees on the part a cable can actually promise: 5A and EPR. See 100W vs 240W cables .
Buying one
The TALIX USB-C Braided Cable, 240W (2 m) is a solid 5A, EPR charging cable: every power claim on the listing is backed by its e-marker. Just don’t buy it for data, since it’s USB 2.0.
Related
- What a cable’s e-marker chip tells your Mac
- Why some cables stop at 100W · Check a cable’s speed
- OWC Thunderbolt 5 Cable · OWC Thunderbolt 4 Cable
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