This week, Intel decided to recall its historic role in promoting the USB interface to the market. It should be recognized that it was the support for new versions of USB with Intel's chipset that promoted the popularity of the corresponding interface generations . As soon as the infrastructure ripened, more compatible devices became available on the market, prices fell, and the appropriate cables and connectors became available.
Recently, Intel made it clear that it wants to apply this experience and to increase the popularity of Thunderbolt 3 interface. In theory, when Intel and Apple started to promote this standard, everything looked beautiful only on paper: the interface promised high data transfer rates and the use of unified connectors, to One port could connect a bunch of different devices, it was even possible to recharge laptops.
In practice, the peripherals supporting Thunderbolt 3 are still rare and expensive, to implement the interface support, not the cheapest controllers are required. Intel now promises that not only it implements Thunderbolt 3 support with the forces of future processors, but also in the next year will open access to interface documentation to all willing developers - completely free. Thus, even AMD can theoretically realize support for the Thunderbolt 3 interface in its future products. Apple does not object to these Intel initiatives , and only welcomes the expansion of the ecosystem. It is expected that the connectors, ports and cables USB-C will become the main universal infrastructure.
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