Although USB has set standards, you can find some odd cables and ports out there. So, why do some USB connectors have small lightning bolts on them?

Thunderbolt is an interface that connects external hardware to a computer. It evolved from DisplayPort (originally using Mini DisplayPort connectors), but Thunderbolts 3, 4, and 5 use USB-C. Those ...

Thunderbolt 3 doubled the data rate—again—to 40Gbps. Another big change: Thunderbolt 3 no longer used the mini DisplayPort connector as its physical interface, dropping it in favor of the USB ...

ASUS has launched its own Thunderbolt 5 add-in card with the ASUS ThunderboltEX 5: single 6-pin power connector, up to 130W USB-PD support, and more.

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The first couple of generations of Thunderbolt used a Mini DisplayPort connector, but starting with the third-generation standard, Thunderbolt uses the same Type-C connector as the updated USB ...

Mini DisplayPorts, as the name indicates, are smaller than regular DisplayPorts. Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2 ports are proprietary Apple products that look like a Mini Displayport.

Apple’s Thunderbolt 2 to 3 display has a Thunderbolt 2 port in the main body, which looks identical to Mini DisplayPort, and a USB-C jack on the other end, which only works when plugged into a ...

Most notably, the A7 mini PC will come with a USB 4 Type-C port. USB 4 mirrors many of the specifications of Thunderbolt 4, so it will be able to support DisplayPort 2.0 and deliver speeds of up ...

The first two standards (Thunderbolt 1 and 2) used a physical Mini DisplayPort connector before moving on to a physical USB-C replacement with Thunderbolt 3.