An Intel executive appears to have unintentionally leaked details of Thunderbolt 5, the next-generation hardware interface protocol that is yet to have been officially announced by Intel.
The details appeared Sunday in a tweeted photo, since deleted, by EVP and GM of Intel’s Client Computing Group, Gregory Bryant, who was documenting his visit to Intel’s R&D labs in Israel.
As outlined by AnandTech, the photo from a Thunderbolt-related tour revealed a poster on a lab wall with the words “80G PHY Technology,” suggesting TB5 connectivity will support up to 80 Gb/s throughput, or double the bandwidth of existing Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4 connections.
The poster also includes the sentence “USB 80G is targeted to support the existing USB-C ecosystem,” implying that Intel intends to run the extra bandwidth through the same USB-C interface connector.
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