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Intel Offers Up Royalty-Free Thunderbolt 3 To USB Promoter Group
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Originally posted by cb88 View PostThe main problem with this is thunderbolt is inherently insecure... so you can end up with devices on your system that have full DMA access, and you have no idea what they are doing. USB on the other hand is mostly geared toward storage and peripherials IO.
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Originally posted by WonkoTheSaneUK View PostUSB 4? Not USB 3.2.5.7.54.a.rc3?
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Originally posted by anarki2 View PostYay. Only 1 year late.
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On 24 May 2017, Intel announced that Thunderbolt 3 would become a royalty-free standard to OEMs and chip manufacturers in 2018, as part of an effort to boost the adoption of the protocol.[62]. As of February 2019 Intel still has not opened up their royalties, and there are no AMD chipsets/computers with Thunderbolt support released or even announced.
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This was supposed to already happen last year. I wouldn't be surprised if Intel freaked out about the continued success of Ryzen and just delayed the release slightly to keep that advantage a bit longer. Keeping Thunderbolt proprietary this long has already been terrible for wider adoption and affordably priced audio interfaces. The cheapest one is 499$/€. The once king of prosumer audio interfaces, M-audio, exhibited a Thunderbolt product in NAMM early 2015 that to this day has not been released.
I'm still chugging along with my ancient pci cards, because their latencies can only be beaten by these new Thunderbolt interfaces.
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Originally posted by SWY1985 View PostBetter late than never, I guess. Hopefully, we'll finally get some cheaper eGPU cases...
Due to the issue of cost and other factors I don’t expect to ever see eGPU’s as anything more than a niche product with niche pricing. In fact I’m kinda expecting the market to dry up over time.
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