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“Apple and Intel have
collaborated on Thunderbolt
from the beginning, and as the industry
leader in its adoption, we applaud
Intel’s efforts to integrate Thunderbolt
technology into its CPUs and open it up
to the rest of the industry,” said Dan
Riccio, Apple’s senior vice president of
Hardware Engineering.
Microsoft has enhanced Thunderbolt
3 device plug-and-play support in the
now available Windows 10 Creators
Update. Intel and Microsoft plan to continue to work together
to enhance the experience in future versions of the Windows
operating system.
“Microsoft and Intel are working together to enable Thunderbolt
3 on Windows PCs to deliver on the ‘if it fits, it works’ potential
of USB-C,” said Roanne Sones, general manager, Strategy and
Ecosystem for Windows and Devices at Microsoft. “The Windows
10 Creators Update enhanced plug-and-play support for
Thunderbolt 3 devices, with additional enhancements planned for
future OS releases.”
In addition to support from Apple and Microsoft, Thunderbolt 3
has already gained significant adoption with more than 120 PC
designs on systems with 7th Generation Intel® Core™ processors,
the latest MacBook Pros and dozens of peripherals – expected to
ramp to nearly 150 by the end of 2017.
Well on our way to achieving our vision, let’s explore a few
scenarios where Thunderbolt 3 is changing the PC experience
and creating new expectations for what’s possible.
State-of-the-Art Single-Cable Docks
Mobile platforms continue to get thinner, lighter and more
powerful. The challenge? A simple and universal way to unleash
the full performance of these mobile devices when docked.
Today, business and home users are forced to choose between
performance and mobility.
Thunderbolt 3 docks enable mobility without compromise. Some
Paul O’Brien, Director, BT Service & Operations Lab; Nick Ames,
Group Chief Executive at SC Group; Jon Benton, Regional Director
at Dawnus; and Stephen Ball, former CEO of Lockheed Martin UK
and the first captain of industry to champion the scheme.
people are more productive with a
large high-resolution monitor, and
others with multiple monitors. Only
Thunderbolt 3 docks support both,
while simultaneously transferring large
files and charging the notebook. Other
people want a simple way to play and
create, and Thunderbolt 3 docks can
connect to any compatible peripheral
or display, avoiding confusion. The
power Thunderbolt 3 brings to docking
is speed and simplicity. Some of these
products are available now for less than $200.
Faster-than-Ever Storage
The amount of data the average person creates, uses and saves
these days is exploding. For example, taking 1,000 high-resolution
photos can quickly create over 20GB of data. Likewise, shooting
an hour of 4K video from a drone can generate a jaw-dropping
1.5TB of data. It could take hours to transfer this data to storage
via conventional methods.
In order to speed up data transfer, storage makers are shifting from
slower Serial ATA (SATA) drives to non-volatile memory (NVMe)
SSDs for higher speed and lower latency storage solutions. For
any media lover or YouTuber generating large amounts of data,
there is often a great need for external storage that is as fast as
the internal SSD to expand capacity. Since only Thunderbolt can
connect NVMe SSDs to your PC, Thunderbolt 3 storage fulfills this
need and enables people to save time with data transfers that
happen in a snap. A full 4K movie can be transferred in less than
30 seconds.
Gaming desktops will continue to offer best-in-class performance
for the ultimate gaming experience. And gamers who want to
combine mobility and performance gaming in one device can use
Thunderbolt 3 to do so.
Chris Walker is vice president of the Client Computing Group
and general manager of the Mobility Client Platform at Intel
Corporation.
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