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isn't Thunderbolt for Apple devices?
by yorby 9y ago
isn't Thunderbolt for Apple devices?
- berbec 9y agoIt's been around for PCs for a while too. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it started as an Apple/Intel extension to DP. I've yet to see it in an AMD PC yet.
- wtallis 9y agoThunderbolt wasn't really an extension to DisplayPort, it just initially re-used the mini-DP connector and has provisions to carry a DisplayPort data stream alongside the PCI Express data stream. When attaching something like a storage device, none of the DisplayPort-related stuff is active.
- wila 9y agoThunderbolt was developed by intel. [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
- yorby 9y ago> developed by intel and Apple...[1] Usually whatever Apple touches becomes very proprietary... 1.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)
- MisterTea 9y agoThey ruined firewire with the idiotic trademarking of the name Firewire causing other companies to brand their products: IEEE 1394, 1394, i.LINK (Sony) and Lynx (Texas Instruments). That lead to similar problems that USB C is having where you have confused people asking questions such as "Is this 1394 camera compatible with my iMac?" or "Oh, i.LINK is the same thing as Firewire AND 1394? So I was able to use all of those things this whole time?" Things got a little better but combined with the per port royalty vs $0 for USB it was bound to fail. And that's a shame because it was a nice bus with very low latency, overhead and memory mapping. It would be perfect for creating small Linux clusters or distributed systems with just a few 1394 cables between machines. Superior to USB in every single way save for cost.