https://newsroom.intel.com/editoria ls/envision-world-thunde

>How can we make our products more appealing?
>MAKE IT USE A STANDARD COMPLETELY LOCKED DOWN WITH INSANE ROYALTY RATES!

>>60562988
>In addition to Intel’s Thunderbolt silicon, next year Intel plans to make the Thunderbolt protocol specification available to the industry under a nonexclusive, royalty-free license. Releasing the Thunderbolt protocol specification in this manner is expected to greatly increase Thunderbolt adoption by encouraging third-party chip makers to build Thunderbolt-compatible chips. We expect industry chip development to accelerate a wide range of new devices and user experiences.
Am I missing something here?

>>60562965

Those are anti-competitive practices. Let's hope Intel loses more market share in the future so that there is more healthy competition.

>>60562965
Wait.
So first all the virgins and anime watchers applaud thinkpads for offering external GPU options which 'is all you need'
And now they're upset because their shitty Indian company is being bankrupted by this practice?

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>>60563039

>>60563025
Better alert the FCC if that's the case.

>>60562965
Does this mean thunderbolt on AMD motherboards and ARM SoCs or is this still Intel only? Because if it's the latter, wow it's fucking nothing.

>>60563278
Only on Intel chipsets.

>>60563438
I don't get why Intel's recent strategy is to add all sorts of semi-useful and near-useless junk to their chipsets to try and convince people to buy their shit, instead of just improving their core architecture or coming up with a new one (before 2021).

>>60563518
Intel is releasing the protocol info royalty free next year, AMD could make it integrated with their processor or OEMs can use third party thunderbolt chips. Thunderbolt has benefits for external docks, GPUs, high transfer rates, etc. with USB C compatibility it will be multipurpose port.

>>60563013
Oh good, might actually see TB actually used now!

>>60563610
But it's clear that Intel is adding these features in an effort to sell their rehashed garbage chips.

>>60563907
>jews jewing jews

>>60563907
As it turns out, die shrinks are harder and harder and it's hard to get people to upgrade. Making it so gamers can have laptops and buy external EGPUs, pros have a more powerful expansion port on portable devices for a variety of uses, and so you can buy one laptop dock now and use it with any future laptop you buy with USB C and hook up to your monitors, USB devices, etc. are all fucking appealing features.

I wouldn't call adding TB on die worthless at all. Not enough to get a lot of people to upgrade still but it helps the value proposition.