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Intel Announces Next Version of Thunderbolt With 20Gbps Throughput Coming in 2014

ToomeyND said:
Although I must say, it's amazing the amount of hate on here that intel is improving their technology. Sure there isn't much use for it yet, but I imagine the people that have shelled out the dough to take advantage of tbolt are happy it is around and improving.
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We're tired of being forced to wait for new, expensive, proprietary "standards" that have a very poor adoption rate with the rest of the industry.

Or do you like that drawer of Apple video connectors you have because Apple changes the design every other year?
 
This just in! Belkin had announced its Thunderbolt hub has been delayed until 2014, err... no make that 2015...
 
Boomhowler said:
1,200 Mbps, faster than current? Nopes.. 1,200MBps, that would only actually be on par with the 10Gbps promised by the current one. Didn't anandtech push the current TB pretty close to 10Gbps?
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If you check the intel demo at NAB they run two chained SSDs with combined throughput of 1200 mega bytes / second. I think there are some protocol overhead as well, not sure though. At 20Gbps that would be pretty far from the maximum throughput, should be close to twice that afaik.
 
HoosPhotog said:
Anyone know if the Redwood Ridge chips will support the Displayport 1.2 spec? So far as I understand it Thunderbolt only supports DP 1.1a, meaning no daisy-chaining DP displays (ie, 2013/14 Dells).

If not, any clue if the 2014 update will support the newer DP spec?
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For Redwood Ridge (2013 update which comes with Haswell):
"There are no performance changes other than official support for DisplayPort 1.2 (and thus 4K displays)." via AnandTech link.

The 2014 update is Falcon Ridge which will come with Broadwell. This will be the speed boost 20Gbps.
 
GoldenJoe said:
Pretty cool. Now if I just had some thunderbolt accessories...
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I wonder if this is the reason for the delay in Belkin's TB Express Dock? If it is too late to get this update into the Dock, then it makes buying the Dock a very UN-future proof purchase at this time...
 
Squilly said:
Your point? There are adapters for that. Isn't it via USB though?
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i don't believe you'll get full gigabit performance over the USB adapter. The only reason why I need a gigabit ethernet port is for the speed, otherwise I'll go wifi.
 
Probably just switching from PCIe v2 to v3, like I said in the past this is probably the way the port is going to evolve toward 100GB/s fiber optics being mostly thought for long distances (if someday they decide to implement a network protocol over TB)
 
wildmac said:
We're tired of being forced to wait for new, expensive, proprietary "standards" that have a very poor adoption rate with the rest of the industry.

Or do you like that drawer of Apple video connectors you have because Apple changes the design every other year?
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How are you being "forced to wait" for things you don't want?

Don't wait. tbolt 2.0 will work with tbolt 1.0. So that pretty much solves your problems, as the video connectors you have now will work next year too. And maybe a couple tbolt 1.0 devices will be out by then, helping you out with your first issue of not having enough tbolt devices.
 
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