Friday, July 20, 2012

Intel to release new Thunderbolt chip in 2Q13


Joseph Tsai, 20 July 2012

Intel plans to release an upgraded version of its Thunderbolt chip (codenamed Redwood Ridge) in the second quarter of 2013 along with the launch its Haswell processors. The new Thunderbolt chip supports 10Gbps data rate, DisplayPort v1.1a as well as DisplayPort v1.2 Redriver.
In 2014, the technology will be further upgraded to Falcon Ridge with transmission speeds to improve to 20Gbps through two channels.

Current Thunderbolt chips (Cactus Ridge) are still priced at about US$20 with motherboard and PC players only adopting the technology in their high-end products.

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