Thunderbolt 2 just started showing up in devices late last year, but a new slide leaked by VR-Zone is giving us our first glimpse at what the next version is going to look like.

In fact, Thunderbolt 3 will support data rates of up to 40 Gbps, a doubling of Thunderbolt 2’s 20 Gbps. That’s much higher than USB 3.0’s 5Gbps and USB 3.1’s 10 Gbps.

Thunderbolt is gaining the USB Type C connector in an attempt to create one cable to do it all. Written by Chris Duckett, Contributor June 2, 2015, 1:56 a.m. PT ...

Apple and Intel’s Thunderbolt 2 standard has given Mac users — particularly professional Mac users — a premium, high-speed connector option for situations where bandwidth and speed are ...

Hardware Intel launches Thunderbolt 3, will use USB Type-C connector By Tim Schiesser June 2, 2015, 4:15 AM 13 comments ...

The Drive Dock also features a Thunderbolt 2 connector with a theoretical throughput of up to 20Gbps. This type of connector is more for the Mac OS users than Windows users, but not exclusively.

That means that if you’ve got a device with a USB Type-C port that supports Thunderbolt, you get faster speeds. If the device just supports the standard USB 3.1 protocol, speeds top out at 10 Gbps.

Thunderbolt is one of those tech innovations with a lot of promise, but not much felt effect for the average user. Thunderbolt docks can change that, and the new Elgato Thunderbolt 2 dock promises ...

By comparison, the Thunderbolt 2 cable gets up to 20Gbps, with USB 3.1 capable of 10Gbps and 3.0 capable of only 5Gbps. Apple brought the USB Type-C connector to our attention when it was used in ...

Thunderbolt was believed by many to be likely to put a dent in the adoption of the slower USB 3.0, but that has not happened, with most PCs still shipping with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports.

The Thunderbolt 3 Express Dock HD retains much of the the same connectivity as previous generations, providing 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports with the USB-C connector, 3 USB 3.0 type A ports with 1.5A of ...

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 ...