Thunderbolt 3 Becomes USB4
Fulfilling its 2017 promise to make Thunderbolt 3 royalty-free, Intel has given the specification for its high-speed interconnect to the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the industry group that develops the USB specification. The USB-IF has taken the spec and will use it to form the basis of USB4, the next iteration of USB following USB 3.2.
Previously: Confusing USB 3.2 Branding.
Update (2019-03-06): Nick Heer:
Making Thunderbolt royalty-free and not dependent on an Intel controller chip would likely be of considerable interest to a company that may want to build the protocol into a non-Intel platform.
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March 6, 2019 3:42 AM
So that means the Mac ports now come to the rest of the world, right? Seems cool to me.
