This WAS under NDA... Until I Called in a Favor - Intel @ CES 2024

[James]

Intel showered us the goods on probably the single thing I'm most excited about from CES 2024, and it's...Thunderbolt? Seriously, this is so cool. Not only that, but Wi-Fi 7 seems like it will actually be an increase that actually matters to regular people- as well as niche corner-case weridos like me lol

 

 

 

[filpo]

Lemme guess, they doubled the transfer speed?

[starsmine]

MegaBytes or Megabits?

[filpo]

4 minutes ago, starsmine said:

MegaBytes or Megabits?

I mean he said megabytes, I dunno bout the caption

[Eigenvektor]

8 minutes ago, starsmine said:

MegaBytes or Megabits?

 

I would assume 800 MB/s, since the graph goes up to 10 Gbps (1.25 GB/s)

[GuiltySpark_]

Nothing could be less exciting than Wifi7. 

[AbsolutelyNot]

21 minutes ago, filpo said:

I mean he said megabytes, I dunno bout the caption

That's the thing – the caption is wrong, it seems. Mbps = Megabits per second. MBps = Megabytes per second.

[TaylorRobinson]

This is extremely cool! Macs have had the file transferring thing for years, but the ability to just, use the KVM of another PC is SO COOL - there have been times where I wish I could play the games on my Steam Deck with the KB&M my laptop already has.

[BillBill]

3 hours ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

Nothing could be less exciting than Wifi7. 

For people who cannot use ethernet cables it might be. 

[Needfuldoer]

About time Thunderbolt did what FireWire could do 25 years ago.

 

6 hours ago, starsmine said:

MegaBytes or Megabits?

Task Manager says megabits, so that should be 800 megabytes/sec.

 

Looks like they fixed it in place!

 

[sjaeger172004]

Where can I get Thunderbolt Share and how much thanks

[akshayt]

Could intel have just used displayport for video sharing? They would just need to figure out how to get the singal into the internal display which they figured out.

[dogwitch]

still dam cool.

when proper intel mang team is funded.

you really get stuff like this.

hell that why we got rock solid 1gb ports.

intel inside!

now not as much... but for a long time yes~

[Senzelian]

I didn't watch the entire video yet, but sharing files between two computers at 10Gbps over Thunderbolt is already a thing. You just connect them and as long as you have a Windows Share on one of them it will show up on the other. It's pretty seamless and works well.

[Lunar River]

i want the thunderbolt sharing.

[Zegger]

Feels like forever since i've been wishing for a decent way to reuse my old laptops as second screens for my desktop, but preferably the laptop taking most of the load.

This new stuff could very well become a big part of the solution!

Currently using window's built in 'project to a pc function' (just moved don't judge lol) and it reaaaallllyyy sucks hard man.

[Lurick]

On 1/12/2024 at 1:59 PM, GuiltySpark_ said:

Nothing could be less exciting than Wifi7. 

Why? It's an improvement over 6 and 6E and offers even lower latency and better throughput.

I get about +3-5ms on wifi 6e compared to a cable which is pretty damn good already. I can see WiFi 7 under half decent conditions bringing that to within margin of error of a cable.

[RandomLegoBrick]

This is random but I just wanna say @James, your pfp is amazing.

 

ok bye

[darknessblade]

That datatransfer function of the thunderbolt 4 cable reminds me of this ANCIENT relic:

[mariushm]

When these thunderbolt cables are launched at maybe $50-100 a piece, maybe someone will remember there's 2 x 40gbps cards available for purchase at $30 plus shipping

 

Yeah, you can argue you can't shove an ethernet card in a laptop, but it doesn't come for free.. you're paying more to include this thunderbolt in the laptop config in the first place, it's not free.

 

They could have come up with some kind of ethernet standard limited to let's say 10 meters wen running on fiber only to allow for cheap cables (like toslink cables for digital audio) and make a new connector to replace RJ45 (which is too thick for laptops) and combine the 8 wires with two optical fibers... get 2.5/5/10g on copper or 10/25g on fiber.