USB confusion

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so i'm not really confused with USB, i am confused with thunderbolt tier, so i do know usb 1.0-3.2 gen 2x2 and USB 4 as well, but i am confused with thunderbolt placement for them, i know usb c is usb 3.1, 3.2, 3.2 gen 2 and 3.2 gen 2x2 so what thunderbolt tier each gen has ?

[AndreiArgeanu]

Thunderbolt 1 and 2 had their own connectors based on mini displayport, they are kind of outdated at this point. Thunderbolt 3 and 4 are USB C. Thunderbolt 3 and 4 are similar with no speed increases but with a few additional features. Intel offered at least for Thunderbolt 3, 3 types of controllers, which you can see on the image below. As for USB standards, there is one more, USB4 which is based of the Thunderbolt 3 specification and is backwards compatible with USB 3.2, 2.0 and compatible with Thunderbolt 3.

You can find plenty of information about thunderbolt on Wikipedia and it goes in much more detail if you want to know more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

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5 hours ago, AndreiArgeanu said:

Thunderbolt 1 and 2 had their own connectors based on mini displayport, they are kind of outdated at this point. Thunderbolt 3 and 4 are USB C. Thunderbolt 3 and 4 are similar with no speed increases but with a few additional features. Intel offered at least for Thunderbolt 3, 3 types of controllers, which you can see on the image below. As for USB standards, there is one more, USB4 which is based of the Thunderbolt 3 specification and is backwards compatible with USB 3.2, 2.0 and compatible with Thunderbolt 3.

You can find plenty of information about thunderbolt on Wikipedia and it goes in much more detail if you want to know more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

ah okay thx mate