The Samsung X5 is one of a few Thunderbolt 3 drives and is still very relevant today. Note the Thunderbolt 3 cable, which looks identical to a USB-C one.

You can use all sorts of PCIe cards with Thunderbolt, not just eGPU setups. All you need is some sort of Thunderbolt PCIe ...

Intel is researching how to speed up Thunderbolt, but the company could potentially develop and deploy a faster connector for PCs based on silicon photonics technology, which combines silicon ...

In addition to the new connector, Thunderbolt 3 now also supports USB 3.1 (i.e. Gen 2, up to 10Gbps), and the Thunderbolt transport layer sees its max bandwidth doubled from 20Gbps to 40Gbps (bi ...

While Thunderbolt 4, Thunderbolt 3, and USB 3.2 allow for up to 100W of power delivery, any given cable may not be able to handle that much power and be limited to as low as 15W.

Apple’s decision not to include Thunderbolt in its super-slim 12-inch MacBook hasn’t discouraged Intel from continuing the development of the high-speed connector technology.

A Thunderbolt 3 cable will look like the current USB-C cables and will support the same power and data transfers, but it will also be capable of much higher throughput (40Gbps) in Thunderbolt mode.

Apple’s Thunderbolt Display has a non-removable Thunderbolt cable (it also has a rear Thunderbolt port). Right now, Thunderbolt cables are available only from Apple for $50.

A Thunderbolt cable is capable of delivering data between a computer and a peripheral (say, an external hard drive) at 10 Gbps in either direction, Intel claims.

Thunderbolt 3 will be a "superset" for USB 3.1, which runs at 10Gbps. Using a standard USB-C cable, Thunderbolt 3 will offer transfer speeds of twice that, at 20Gbps.

Since then, only one product, the Echo ExpressCard/34 Thunderbolt Adapter, is currently for sale. Thunderbolt is a year old, and Apple is still the only provider of Thunderbolt cables, which cost ...