Lovely new dongles and lusciously lengthy cables are Intel's new offerings
(2020/07/09)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/07/09/intel_thunderbolt_4_tiger_lake/
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Intel has revealed the specs for Thunderbolt 4.0 and spruiked its ability to power really impressive dongles connected by long cables.
That opening isn’t a nark job: it’s a recount of [1]Intel’s ShinyHappy™ launch video that suggests the main virtue of the updated protocol is that it can now power docks that have four Thunderbolt ports aboard. The results can be quite impressive: the video demo shows one cable snaking out from a USB-C/Thunderbolt port into a dock, and then into a pair of 4K monitors and a solid state drive pushing data at up to 3,000 megabytes-per-second. Power for the dock and the laptop flow from another Thunderbolt cable.
And those cables can now reach two metres in length.
The caveat is that Thunderbolt 4.0 will only start to ship with Tiger Lake mobile CPUs due to ship sometime later in 2020. So you’ll need a whole new PC to take advantage of the update and probably new peripherals too because most older kit doesn’t offer USB-C ports or support Thunderbolt. Intel is good at ecosystem-building so peripheral-makers will be aboard on day one, but it will take a while for diverse options to emerge.
Remember, too, that Chipzilla’s last effort at changing the way we dock with the WiGig wireless standard utterly failed to excite buyers.
Which may be one reason that, as noted by market-watchers, NVIDIA’s market capitalisation on Wednesday surpassed Intel’s for the first time.
Intel's also announced the new 8000-series Thunderbolt controller for system-builders. ®
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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=174&v=l_mBBE4NIOE&feature=emb_logo
[2] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
That opening isn’t a nark job: it’s a recount of [1]Intel’s ShinyHappy™ launch video that suggests the main virtue of the updated protocol is that it can now power docks that have four Thunderbolt ports aboard. The results can be quite impressive: the video demo shows one cable snaking out from a USB-C/Thunderbolt port into a dock, and then into a pair of 4K monitors and a solid state drive pushing data at up to 3,000 megabytes-per-second. Power for the dock and the laptop flow from another Thunderbolt cable.
And those cables can now reach two metres in length.
The caveat is that Thunderbolt 4.0 will only start to ship with Tiger Lake mobile CPUs due to ship sometime later in 2020. So you’ll need a whole new PC to take advantage of the update and probably new peripherals too because most older kit doesn’t offer USB-C ports or support Thunderbolt. Intel is good at ecosystem-building so peripheral-makers will be aboard on day one, but it will take a while for diverse options to emerge.
Remember, too, that Chipzilla’s last effort at changing the way we dock with the WiGig wireless standard utterly failed to excite buyers.
Which may be one reason that, as noted by market-watchers, NVIDIA’s market capitalisation on Wednesday surpassed Intel’s for the first time.
Intel's also announced the new 8000-series Thunderbolt controller for system-builders. ®
Get our [2]Tech Resources
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=174&v=l_mBBE4NIOE&feature=emb_logo
[2] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: TB4 is kindof Fake.
Phil O'Sophical
Ignore it and wait for TB5.
Isn't it still in orbit?
Re: TB4 is kindof Fake.
Annihilator
Oh bravo sir. In fact, you might say, FAB.
Re: TB4 is kindof Fake.
big_D
Waiting for TB5 to hit the ground? (running)
Mine's the one with the keys to a pink Rolls Royce in the pocket, "yes m'Lady."
TB4 is kindof Fake.
It doesn’t bring any urgently needed speed bump and Apple supports everything TB4 supports with TB3 chips already.
Originally, TB4 was a fake Intel released with Tiger Lake at CES2020 because they were caught with their pants down shortly after AMD released their wildly successful Renoir notebook processors and didn’t have anything new to show.
Ignore it and wait for TB5.