Intel could soon bring to market a faster version of its Thunderbolt connector technology with a throughput of 50Gbps, but the company is biding its time until there is a need for faster connectors.

As “really good Mac accessory ideas” go, Thunderbolt docks are high on the list. It’s hard to overstate the sheer convenience of connecting a bunch of peripherals to a central hub, then running one ...

Thunderbolt (and its Thunderbolt 2 successor) is a technically impressive high-speed data standard. Thunderbolt offers maximum bandwidth of 10Gbps while, Thunderbolt 2 doubled that to 20Gbps. However, ...

Intel has unveiled the next generation of Thunderbolt technology, enabling data transfer speeds of up to 40 Gbps. That means Thunderbolt 3 is twice as fast as Thunderbolt 2. It also uses the same ...

Intel has announced at Computex 2015 that Thunderbolt 3 will be adopting the USB Type C connector, in what the company is calling "the USB-C that does it all". The new Thunderbolt 3 will provide ...

Intel can release cables based on silicon photonics to succeed Thunderbolt, but faster throughput is not needed, the company says Intel could soon bring to market a faster version of its Thunderbolt ...