Optical cables that connect peripherals to Thunderbolt 2 ports in Apple Macs are getting longer, but also more expensive. Other World Computing on Friday started selling a 30-meter Thunderbolt 2 ...

According to the global data site Statista, about 30 billion devices are connected to the internet, but trying to get one PC to talk to another one right next to it via a cable has long been a quirky ...

I can see that most modern motherboards have a thunderbolt port, but how is it actually wired? When I can connect my thunderbolt cable/dock to a Macbook Pro, everything gets routed via that - USB, ...

Since the mid 1990s, the Universal Serial Bus has held its own as the industry standard for cable and connection interfaces. The standard is so embedded in our technology that it’s been embraced by a ...

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For more than a year Intel has talked about graduating from copper wires to fiber optics for Thunderbolt ports on Apple’s Mac computers, and Sumitomo Electric Industries has became one of the first ...

Intel's long-awaited Thunderbolt 4 has now been revealed and its specification detailed. In a press release the company says this next generation of the connectivity standard will deliver "increased ...

Intel has announced a new feature for Thunderbolt designed to make life easier for folks with both a laptop and a desktop (or just two different PCs they use frequently). Thunderbolt Share allows two ...

I often get ideas to test certain aspects of storage technology, but none are more popular than the cables we use to connect to our storage devices. With Intel and the USB-IF going with Type-C as a ...

PC makers Acer and Asustek have joined Apple in announcing support for Intel's Thunderbolt high speed data interconnect, saying they will add the technology to PCs next year. Intel noted the two ...

Update: The cable has made its way on to the online US Apple Store and it is indeed US$49. Following yesterday’s Thunderbolt firmware update that brought “performance and stability fixes”, Apple has ...

Connecting an external GPU via Thunderbolt 5 can upgrade a vanilla work laptop into a reasonably competent gaming PC. If you need multiple displays, you can connect two 4K60 monitors over Thunderbolt ...