{"id":117779,"date":"2017-05-25T12:45:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=117779"},"modified":"2017-05-25T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:46:29","slug":"intel-drops-royalties-and-announces-cpu-integration-for-thunderbolt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/117779-intel-drops-royalties-and-announces-cpu-integration-for-thunderbolt-3","title":{"rendered":"Intel drops royalties and announces CPU integration for Thunderbolt 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.intel.com\/editorials\/envision-world-thunderbolt-3-everywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced <\/a><\/strong>that it will release its Thunderbolt 3 protocol specification to the industry next year.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it is working to integrate Thunderbolt 3 into its CPUs, which will allow manufacturers to build thinner and lighter systems using only Thunderbolt 3 USB-C ports.<\/p>\n<p>The Thunderbolt 3 specification can be used for a variety of functions, including fast charging, as a display connection, and powering large connection hubs.<\/p>\n<p>Intel said that releasing the Thunderbolt 3 specification would increase adoption by encouraging third-party manufacturers to build Thunderbolt-compatible chips.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has improved Thunderbolt 3 plug-and-play support in its Windows 10 Creators Update and plans to add more enhancements in future updates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMicrosoft and Intel are working together to enable Thunderbolt 3 on Windows PCs,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/212336-intel-wants-thunderbolt-3-to-be-everywhere.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/208036-the-best-new-intel-hd-graphics-processors-for-gaming.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best new Intel HD Graphics processors for gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has announced that it will release its Thunderbolt 3 protocol specification to the industry next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":114335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12465,24463,1727,24465,17362],"class_list":["post-117779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-cpu","tag-integration","tag-intel","tag-royalty","tag-thunderbolt-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}