Thunderbolt cables aren't like the low-cost commodity USB and FireWire cables that come free with external hard drives or cameras or printers or whatever peripheral you might name. A few weeks ago ...

Fulfilling its 2017 promise to make Thunderbolt 3 royalty-free, Intel has given the specification for its high-speed interconnect to the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the industry group that ...

With the technology being baked into future parts and offered royalty-free, Intel clearly wants to change that. And as a result, it's going to open up the Thunderbolt 3 specification to other ...

and then making the Thunderbolt protocol specification available to third-party chipmakers, royalty-free, next year. "We think the first thing is going to drive broader adoption and deployment of ...

Expect to see Thunderbolt ports on many more computers, peripherals, and even VR headsets once Intel opens up the specification next year. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at ...

Intel also announced that it will be releasing the Thunderbolt 3 protocols for anyone to use royalty-free. This is big news with maximum benefit for the end consumer. The Thunderbolt 3 protocol ...

enabling other chip makers to build Thunderbolt compatible silicon, royalty-free. In addition, the USB Promoter Group announced the pending release of the USB4 specification, based on the ...