Intel's New Tiger Lake Processors Support Thunderbolt 4 Which Delivers 4X the Throughput of USB 3 [Video]

Intel's has announced that its next generation Tiger Lake mobile processors will have support for Thunderbolt 4 and Wi-Fi 6.

Executive Vice President Gregory Bryant announced the following details about Tiger Lake today:

Tiger Lake is designed to bring Intel’s bold, people-led vision for mobile computing to life, with groundbreaking advances in every vector and experience that matters. With optimizations spanning the CPU, AI accelerators and discrete-level integrated graphics based on the new Intel Xe graphics architecture, Tiger Lake will deliver double-digit performance gains, massive AI performance improvements, a huge leap in graphics performance and 4x the throughput of USB 3 with the new integrated Thunderbolt 4. Built on Intel’s 10nm+ process, the first Tiger Lake systems are expected to ship this year.

Unfortunately, this is all Intel had to reveal about Thunderbolt 4. Some sources say that it's simply rebranding to indicate that USB 4 and Thunderbolt 3 have been fully certified by the company. That would leave it at the same current speed of 40Gbps. However, it's still possible that Thunderbolt 4 is 4X faster than USB 3.2 which would put it at 80Gbps.

Here's the latest statement from Intel:

"Thunderbolt 4 continues Intel leadership in providing exceptional performance, ease of use and quality for USB-C connector-based products. It standardizes PC platform requirements and adds the latest Thunderbolt innovations. Thunderbolt 4 is based on open standards and is backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 3. We will have more details to share about Thunderbolt 4 at a later date."


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