Intel Announces Thunderbolt 5 With 120 Gbps Bandwidth Boost

[vegabook]

The most important addition is missing from the article: 240W charging.

$2.99 240W "Firestarter" TB5 cable from Alibaba incoming..👨🚒 🧨 🧯 🚨 🎆 🌋 🛩 🪂 🫠

[Quackdoc]

The joke never changes. We as users, consumers, producers designers, technicians and engineers are victims of this.

Anyway, I find stupid that there are two standards. USB isn't so UNIVERSAL at all. I tought USB4 would be the unification of both USB and Thunderbolt, but I was wrong.

USB5 would be "Thunderbolt 6". 1.7 Tbps. Optical cable and maybe some magical copper way too or a compatible for slow devices such as keyboards, mices, audio and such.

Fragmentation/segmentation bores me to adopt this crap, really. I would inly use PCIe, fastest Ethernet or similar even in a home infrastructure.

USB and Thunderbolt are a mess. Slow adoption, too much market segmentation, too slow to be implemented in new devices. It's also a not really great improvemrnt at each iteration. Most computing issues are due to damn bandwidth bottlenecks.

at this point, Thunderbolt now serves two purposes, Intel's staging grounds for tech that will eventually end up in USB4 (thanks intel much love), as well as a certification/gurantee of features. the main issue with them now is still cost, pcie needs high speed low latency, and the controllers are not cheap, so devices are hence, not cheap, really wish we would see some USB4 pcie addon cards but whatever, at least we are starting to see some hardware with usb4

[marlock]

I think there's a big lack of appreciation for the fact that an entire 120GB SSD worth of data could soon be sent down an USB cable in a single second, which is waaaay faster than early consumer-grade SSDs could do over an internal wiring in my PC.

Pretty soon we might as well make all disks "external" and offer USB4 as internal wiring for PC components.


Also there is a lot of ME - MY USECASE issues being confused with HOMO SAPIENS - HARD LIMITS in this thread.

I am utterly unable to consciously spot specific paralax, motion and shading flaws in 3D games yet my visual cortex incosnciously gets damn obviously sick from prolongued exposure to wrong 3D (popularly called "3D sickness" and/or "motion sickness"). And I am not an astrophysicist yet I don't call Hubble useless.

[Alliancemd]

144 Hz, let alone 540 Hz refresh rate, for displays normally aimed at being watched by humans whose brains can't process images at rates close to those... why, just why ?
Oh yeah, newer and bigger is better and more expensive, too. Sorry, I temporarily forgot about that.

Are you really complaining about this?...
They have more bandwidth and wanted to show what can be done with it, if you don't need all the bandwidth, don't use it, it's for other people

[willmore]

I think there's a big lack of appreciation for the fact that an entire 120GB SSD worth of data could soon be sent down an USB cable in a single second, which is waaaay faster than early consumer-grade SSDs could do over an internal wiring in my PC.

Eight seconds. 120Gb/s for one second != 120GB

120Gb/s is quite fast, but links like Inifinband passed it a decade ago. Current IB is 10 times this speed.