• hddsx@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Isn’t thunderbolt open? What’s preventing me from getting thunderbolt 4 on AMD

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      6 months ago

      Thunderbolt 3 is part of USB4. Thunderbolt 4 is separate and not supported by AMD processors yet, probably due to licensing issues. (Note that prior to USB4 this was why Thunderbolt 3 wasn’t available on AMD.)

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        6 months ago

        Thunderbolt 4 is separate and not supported by AMD processors yet

        Thunderbolt 4 is USB4 with better performance. Nobody is stopping AMD (or anyone else) to implement the USB4 specs with TB4 speeds, they just cannot call it Thunderbolt.

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      6 months ago

      Huh I actually thought it was proprietary…?

      The ports are now interoperable with usb C, but I believe it’s kind of a TypeScript::JavaScript situation