Yesterday, Intel officially announced that Thunderbolt 3 will integrate its controllers in future CPUs and will provide manufacturers with free licenses. Since the industry giants have spoken, in the foreseeable future, the Thunderbolt 3 interface will usher in a large Outbreak, all kinds of laptops based on the thunder and lightning 3 interface, external devices will be sprung up.
Thunderbolt 1, a product of Intel Labs, uses a copper-core connection that was a combination of both PCI-E and DisplayPort technologies to provide both 10Gbps bandwidth and video output.
The biggest difference between Thunderbolt 2 is to enhance the bandwidth, into a two-way 20Gbps, making support for 4k video output possible, and began to have some external graphics card docking station equipment.
Unfortunately, both Thunderbolt 1 and 2 are very high-end due to cost issues, and only Apple was using this high-speed interface in production equipment.
Although the first two generations of lightning interface did not get manufacturers, consumers, but Intel chose to continue, at the Computex show in 2015, Intel released the Thunderbolt 3 bandwidth continued to double to 40Gbps, rare, It abandoned the original form of mini DisplayPort interface, select the station USB Type-C, both sides of the positive and negative can be inserted.
So what can a USB Type-C do? That can be more, up to 5K video output, 100W high-power charging, USB 3.1 Gen2, 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3. A Thunderbolt 3 interface can solve almost all of our daily life line Cable connection problems, the most typical is the fall of Apple's 2016 release Macbook Pro 2017, with two Thunderbolt 3 interface.
Intel chose to integrate the Thunderbolt 3 controller on the CPU, then the board will not need additional chips to support this feature, the cost reduction is directly reflected in the product price reduction, and ultimately benefit us.
Free technology licensing allows manufacturers to be easier and more interested in entering the Thunderbolt 3 peripheral product market with less royalty and better performance. Of course, the interface is booming and the related products are bound to usher in a big boom.
Intel said it will work closely with Microsoft to enhance plug-and-play support for Thunderbolt 3 devices in the Windows 10 Innovator Update, making it possible for such devices to achieve full performance without having to manually install drivers. The computer device has a Thunderbolt 3 interface.
