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. Now, for the ...

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 ...

Currently, those Alpine Ridge chips are the only way to do Thunderbolt 3, with an Intel chip needed at both the PC end and the device end. Nobody else can make Thunderbolt 3 controllers.

Will form the basis for USB 4 Chipzilla has done the decent thing and fulfilled its 2017 promise to make Thunderbolt 3 royalty-free. Intel has given the specification for its high-speed ...

Now, Intel is going one step further (Opens in a new window) : It's making the Thunderbolt 3 standard royalty-free in a bid to attract attention for the standard and improve uptake from manufacturers.

Highlights. Intel makes the use of Thunderbolt 3 protocols royalty-free; USB4 standard to be based on Thunderbolt 3 protocol; USB4 to offer twice the speed of USB 3.2 over Type-C connector at 40Gbps ...

Thunderbolt has never seen a great deal of market penetration, but that may be about to change with Intel natively integrating Thunderbolt 3 into future CPU models and making the protocol royalty ...

If the features of Thunderbolt Share sound familiar, it’s because macOS already supports them. With File Sharing and Screen Sharing turned on in macOS Sonoma’s System Settings (General ...