Showing posts with label thunderbolt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thunderbolt. Show all posts

Wednesday 7 June 2017

Thunderbolt Goes Royalty-Free as Intel Repositions It to Boost Adoption

Thunderbolt is a very fresh concept for many people who still associate themselves with the latest trend of technology other than addressing the fact that it is a standardized mode to connect devices. This is the general conception for past few years. The standard of the thunderbolt was upgraded to usher in; a new era of devices that would lead to high-speed interconnectivity, but this facility is restricted only to some renowned Mac users other than being circulated for every product manufacturer in the market.

Many years ago, Intel brought in this notion of support system involving thunderbolt with the USB-C level which would help in mending a systems potentiality, which would in turn enhance the system’s compatibility with the latest and giant USB standard clubbed with a reversible plug support and simultaneously gripping the upgraded bandwith of Thunderbolt 3 i.e. 40Gbit/s.

Intel is on the verge of taking a step further by upgrading the standard of Thunderbolt 3 in terms of making it free of royalty, in order to grasp the attention from the uptaking manufacturers. Intel has incorporated two more enticing elements for the development of Thunderbolt 3. First, Intel will enhance it, so that it could be fed in the upcoming series of CPUs, more like a version of the on-die I/O capability. In this regard the technology would be used to extend further technical features like VR, which has the capability to use the bandwith of Thunderbolt 3, in order to pitch speeds pertaining to high transmission. Intel has not yet revealed anything regarding Thunderbolt 4, but if we consider the fact that any upcoming level of development would incorporate PVle 4.0, then we can expect to see the most reliable platforms coming up in near future which would support Intel’s protocol venturing out as the upcoming generation.

The most striking aspect of Intel’s Thunderbolt 3 version is that it is not fed in to the system as a modern chipset or CPU. Inspite of announcing this several years ago Intel has not yet fed this standardized technology into any laptop or Desktop CPUs, rather Intel is relied on the equipments brought by the consumers using expensive and remunerating controllers, which includes Alpine Ridge.

Thus, it is still difficult to locate Thunderbolt 3 on several devices, it is not at all easy and reasonable. This technology is sure to show its gripping effect in the near future with no barriers regarding royalty. Intel is on the way towards changing their royalty issues and if it happens then the latest specifications of Thunderbolt 3 would be opened to several other companies which intend to build hardware as well, this would mean that all the third-party organization would now be able to stylize their respective Thunderbolt standards of compliant, firms like AMD falls under this regard. This kind of compatibility has led to innovative performance in the competing industrial market. The more innovation towards USB-C will ensure standardized single port to the customers.

Wednesday 10 April 2013

Intel Announces Next Generation Thunderbolt



Intel announced next generation of Thunderbolt with Ultrafast connectivity that would be twice as fast as today. Intel disclosed in a press conference that they were already working on an evolution of its connections. In doing so, the Thunderbolt is gradually approaching the promise of 100 Gbits per channel promised Light Peak, the original concept. Today, the Thunderbolt can send and receive data at 10 Gbps. Version 2.0 will double this rate to a increase of 20 Gbps. Coupled with its ability bidirectional transfer, this increased speed allows the user to watch a Ultra HD video while transferring a file at the same time and all this with a single cable connected between the computer and an external disk at the same instance. This new version of the Thunderbolt will be available in 2014 Intel added.

To take advantage, it will market a PC and devices with a chip Thunderbolt fourth generation and is code name "Falcon Ridge". In addition to his prodigious rates, the Thunderbolt is able to chain several devices together. Connected to each other, they communicate the same way with the computer as the first device connected to it. At the beginning of the project, Intel was mocked because they used copper in the very beginning instead of optical fiber which is the darling of manufacturers. While Apple was the first to trust Intel Thunderbolt implanting in its machines, it is now more than 200 manufacturers have taken a license.