Asus Z87 Motherboards Will Have Thunderbolt Support
Asus has let out yet another teaser regarding its upcoming Z87 motherboards.
A while back we showed you Asus' teasers regarding its Z87 motherboards, two of which were the Z87-Deluxe and the Z87-Gryphton. Meanwhile, Asus has dropped some more teasers, with a closeup of the LGA1150 socket, under which we can clearly read the text "Intel Thunderbolt Certified."
Beyond this, yet another teaser was released showing the rear I/O of an unnamed motherboard showing two Thunderbolt ports. They can be clearly spotted next to the BIOS reset switch and underneath the HDMI port and two USB 3.0 ports. While the likeliness can be questioned, it is a possibility that Asus will equip most, if not all, of its Z87 motherboards with a Thunderbolt interface, since a Thunderbolt controller will be integrated into Haswell CPUs.
At Computex in Taiwan, we'll be seeing more of Asus' lineup. In the meantime, stay tuned for the undoubtedly more teasers to come.
Anyone have a guess when will we see thunderbolt on video cards?
I'm guessing few people would be in any hurry to switch their displays to Thunderbolt while cables and devices carry a $20-30 premium over non-Thunderbolt equivalents.
The ability to string two displays off one port (maybe more with future revisions) would be fairly nice for multi-display setups but it may take a while for the capability to become reasonably priced.
I'm guessing few people would be in any hurry to switch their displays to Thunderbolt while cables and devices carry a $20-30 premium over non-Thunderbolt equivalents.
The ability to string two displays off one port (maybe more with future revisions) would be fairly nice for multi-display setups but it may take a while for the capability to become reasonably priced.
You can already "daisy" chain multiple displays with Display Port.
You know nothing about how Thunderbolt was developed if you're making such a claim. Please crawl back into your hole.
You can already "daisy" chain multiple displays with Display Port.
But you can't add on an additional four devices with Display Port at the end of the chain as can be done with TB. DP is the more consumer based choice though.
Not quite. Thunderbolt has 10Gbps per lane vs 5Gbps for USB3 and Thunderbolt has two sets in both directions for 20Gbps per cable. The next version of Thunderbolt is already in the works, targeting 40Gbps per cable.
So Intel seems to intend to push Thunderbolt bandwidth a fair bit harder than USB.
TB should have been copper for power and MMF for data to avoid the escalating cable cost curve and the likely need to upgrade cables with every new iteration.
Even USB which was supposed to be low-cost became considerably more complex with USB3 that added two dedicated half-duplex pairs for high-speed bidirectional data instead of adding only one dedicated to one direction while reusing the existing one for the other direction.
Gotta love how Intel's decision to make USB1/2 cables a few pennies cheaper to manufacture than FireWire by using a single half-duplex pair ended up making them more expensive with USB3. Of course, Intel does not care anymore since FireWire (the only notable mainstream non-Intel IO standard since the serial and parallel ports) is practically history and all remaining mainstream interconnects are Intel-backed.
Also ironic is how much Thunderbolt looks like a souped-up FireWire if you look at the fundamental principles... practically the same thing but using DP/PCIe bridges instead of SCSI controllers.