Intel has announced at Computex 2015 that Thunderbolt 3 will be adopting the USB Type C connector, in what the company is calling "the USB-C that does it all".

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.

Intel states that Thunderbolt 3 products will begin to hit the market before the end of the year, with wider availability slated for 2016. Now that it supports USB 3.1, PCIe 3.0 x4, and ...