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That's good. Finally, we're moving with processors forward - probably thanks to AMD, again. My only hope is for them (both, either) to make thunderbolt standard feature on motherboards or ditch it completely.



Well, Intel recently (last week?) announced that Thunderbolt 3 would be licensed for free, and that they intend to integrate it (a controller I assume) in to their future CPUs.

I presume that this free licensing extends to AMD and vendors of the AMD platform, which could entice them to adopt it too.


Intel certainly seem to have come around to opening Thunderbolt up to wider adoption.

https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/envision-world-thunder...


Good!

Something was obviously very wrong before when Microsoft left out Thunderbolt on high-end machines for "non-technical reasons".


Which i will thank Apple for that.

Both actions are simply Intel reacting to AMD and Apple.




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