{"id":18069,"date":"2017-05-31T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T19:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18069"},"modified":"2017-05-31T16:51:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T20:51:04","slug":"intel-to-integrate-thunderbolt-3-eliminate-royalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/31\/intel-to-integrate-thunderbolt-3-eliminate-royalties\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel to Integrate Thunderbolt 3, Eliminate Royalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/24\/intel-to-integrate-thunderbolt-3-into-cpus\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/05\/24\/intel-to-integrate-thunderbolt-3-into-cpus\/\">\n<p>Intel today <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.intel.com\/editorials\/envision-world-thunderbolt-3-everywhere\/\">announced<\/a> that it plans to drive large-scale mainstream adoption of Thunderbolt by releasing the protocol&rsquo;s specification to the industry next year under a nonexclusive, royalty-free license.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Intel also revealed plans to integrate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/thunderbolt\/\">Thunderbolt 3<\/a> into its future CPUs, but it didn&rsquo;t provide a timeline as to when. The all-in-one design will take up less space on a Mac or PC&rsquo;s logic board, and reduce power consumption by eliminating the need for a standalone Thunderbolt controller.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hopefully this isn&rsquo;t too late to avoid a FireWire-like fate.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2017-05-31): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colincornaby\/status\/870012212991074304\">Colin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colincornaby\/status\/870012489043296258\">Cornaby<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colincornaby\/status\/870012212991074304\"><p>FWIW I think Thunderbolt 3 is seeing a lot more success on the PC side than Firewire ever did, and it&rsquo;s still growing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colincornaby\/status\/870012489043296258\"><p>So that&rsquo;s the weird thing is that the PC companies have been shipping a whole bunch of docks. Meantime the Mac is a mess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colincornaby\/status\/870019453571932160\"><p>The higher end PC docks have GPUs, which isn&rsquo;t supported under macOS. Apple blocked certain chipsets. Other stuff seems glitch on macOS.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Rossignol: Intel today announced that it plans to drive large-scale mainstream adoption of Thunderbolt by releasing the protocol&rsquo;s specification to the industry next year under a nonexclusive, royalty-free license. [&#8230;] Intel also revealed plans to integrate Thunderbolt 3 into its future CPUs, but it didn&rsquo;t provide a timeline as to when. 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