Thunderbolt 5 Announced With Up to 3x More Bandwidth

[qCzar]

Interesting this is announced on the day the new iPhones with USB-C are to be announced.

What benefit would a phone get with TB5?

 

[krspkbl]

Wow! I was not expecting this from Intel. Nice! I wonder how much Intel is going to charge us.

You do know Apple work with Intel on Thunderbolt, right? So how much will Intel and Apple charge us.

 

[DotCom2]

People who just browse the web are ECSTATIC!

 

[krspkbl]

What benefit would a phone get with TB5?

It's more about showing that USB-C is the superior cable and is only going to get better?

 

[sw1tcher]

Congratulations Intel (and Apple) on this new Thunderbolt 5 standard!

Nice move intel.

Ok. I'm confused. We're cool with Intel now?

It wasn't that long ago that people were badmouthing Intel

 

[krspkbl]

Ok. I'm confused. We're cool with Intel now?

It wasn't that long ago that people were badmouthing Intel

You can give them **** and praise. It's allowed.

 

[zach-coleman]

I have a feeling Vision Pro will be updated to M3 and Thunderbolt 5 by launch.

Does the vision pro even have ports…?

 

[sw1tcher]

Wow! I was not expecting this from Intel.

But we were told Intel was working on this a year ago and that it would come out as early as 2023

'Thunderbolt 5' Would Enable Dual 8K Display Support and More on Macs

Intel today previewed the next generation of Thunderbolt, which would enable ultra-fast data transfer speeds and improved external display support on...

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Intel today previewed the next generation of Thunderbolt, which would enable ultra-fast data transfer speeds and improved external display support on future Macs that incorporate the standard when it launches in 2023 or later.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Wow! I was not expecting this from Intel. Nice! I wonder how much Intel is going to charge us.

Thunderbolt is royalty free as of 2019.

 

[MrENGLISH]

I doubt it. Rumors are that the Vision Pro will get a quick refresh/2nd gen so it'll probably come with that. No chance are they changing the current 1st gen model.

Apple wasn't going to prematurely announce the M3 at WWDC 23 just for the early tease of Vision Pro. Especially when they just announced the 15" M2 Air.

There is nothing stopping them from changing the specs when they announce the official launch. Look at the pre-release Mac Mini's with A12Z chips that officially launched with M1.

It isn't that far fetched for them to do this.

 

[MrENGLISH]

Does the vision pro even have ports…?

They advertised that it connects to your Mac. Maybe that was only via AirPlay but I'd be shocked if a "Pro" device was limited in such a way.

 

[smirking]

Hopefully the iPhone 15 has it, but I doubt it I would pay extra for that

You're going to be running multiple 8K displays off of your iPhone 15? 😳

 

[killawat]

The fact this is announced today speaks volumes!

"Hey look at us! We're busy too!"

Just kidding, I love some Thunderbolt!

 

[zach-coleman]

They advertised that it connects to your Mac. Maybe that was only via AirPlay but I'd be shocked if a "Pro" device was limited in such a way.

The Mac screen mirroring thing was wireless. I just rewatched the keynote a few days ago and they said something to the effect of “without cables” when showing it.

 

[the future]

Time to start saving your pennies for the 8K Pro display then, folks.

 

[Lampekap]

Did the EU agree? Is it not anti competitive to deliver such high speeds?

 

[MrRom92]

Love my PC but no Thunderbolt. hasn’t really been a thing on AMD motherboards until maybe the last year or so. Maybe it still isn’t, I’m not even sure about that. Hasn’t really been a problem yet other than having to select peripherals a bit more carefully. But more bandwidth is always good. Isn’t thunderbolt also backwards compatible with FireWire? Would’ve saved me the hassle of having to find and install a FireWire PCI-E card…

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

What benefit would a phone get with TB5?

For one, dumping a bunch of 4K-8K video shot in prores while on your vacation to your Mac for editing. "Improved cameras" will generally yield bigger files. Transferring many bigger files can either be faster or slow (by existing methods) or painfully slow by 10-year-old standards.

People will sling "use iCloud, use iCloud" but the same on iCloud would take forever and unlimited* cellular plans are not really unlimited (throttling always in the small print). A super fast data dump with this technology would likely be a very popular option for those with big data to move and not hours and hours to wait for such transfers.

 

[azentropy]

Nice, hopefully we see it in Apple products early next year!

 

[chfilm]

nice! Bring on the m3 mac studio with tb 5 and then let's have external SSD Raid enclosures with that too!!

 

[Pupi]

Nice move intel. Stealing apple’s thunder today.

I can see the press now “intel announces thunderbolt 5 and in other news Apple releases yet another iPhone…”

One is relevant to 10k people the other to 100 million.

 

[svish]

Good! Might take some time before Apple brings Thunderbolt 5 to it's devices

 

[iBluetooth]

Looking forward to having two 32inch 6K monitors on my desktop, running 120Hz, but me using it for reading program lines (programming)

 

[gaximus]

I want to see Linus Tech Tip do a comparison to see if any gamer can tell between a 280Hz and 540Hz.

 

[jayducharme]

Theoretical speeds are one thing. But I’ve never gotten close to current TB speeds during normal usage. I maybe see a few hundred meg at the most. That’s not bad, really, but not nearly what’s advertised.