Intel is continuing to develop interface Thunderbolt, which is still hard to find a place in the market. Intel developing to compete with the most common peripheral interfaces USB, whose capacity in the transition from version USB 3.0 to USB 3.1 will increase from 5 to 10 Gbit / s. The advantages include low cost USB and the ability to supply power. Incidentally, with regard to the latter, according to associate , Intel expects next year to release a new controller Thunderbolt, which will be added to the power supply interface. A second innovation will be to support the connection point to point.
In other respects, the controller Broadwell Thunderbolt-LP is not too different from its predecessor. It includes two channels of 10 Gb / s, designed to activate the flow of DisplayPort 1.2 on the graphics system and connects to a host interface PCIe 2.0 x2.
Chip on board occupies a plot size of 8 x 8 mm, will be characterized by TDP 1,5 W (idle - 1 mW). Thunderbolt cable hold up to 53 watts.
Perhaps, the new controller will be shown in January at CES 2014.