Thunderbolt bandwidth to double in 2014 with Falcon Ridge

[Brandon J.F.]

A fourth-generation “Falcon Ridge” controller will then be released in 2014, according to DigiTimes, offering up to 20Gbps bandwidth per channel. It’s unclear at this point if Intel will be able to achieve those speeds while sticking to copper cables of if they’ll need to adopt the more expensive optical variety.

http://www.techspot.com/news/49502-thunderbolt-bandwidth-to-double-in-2014-with-falcon-ridge.html

 

[Kwan Khan]

Redwood Ridge due in the second quarter of 2013. It would let laptops do crazy things...

- I suspect that Redwood Ridge is what's holding up the Mac Pro.

- DisplayPort 1.2 has enough bandwidth to feed 3840x2160 @ 30 bpp, 60 Hz, with some to spare.....