Speaking of initiative to provide customers with the opportunity to implement Thunderbolt interface support in their own products for free, Intel noted that at one time it was the support for new interfaces with Intel chipsets that opened the way for them on the mass market. At least as soon as Intel platforms gained support for new versions of USB, the corresponding products immediately received massive distribution.
Intel's "three-hundredth series" chipsets have already been attributed to the inborn support not only of USB 3.1, but also of the Wi-Fi wireless interface with gigabit data rates. It was assumed that the Intel 3xx chipsets will debut along with the 14-nm desktop processors of the Coffee Lake generation. Now we know that some of the processors of this series will be released in August this year, so they will have to accompany the chipset Intel Z370.
Colleagues from the site DigiTimes argue that the Intel Z370 due to the postponement of the August debut of support for USB 3.1 of the second generation and Wi-Fi will be stripped, but the outcoming in early 2018, the chipset of the Intel Z390 and H370 will already be offered. Even the Gemini Lake platform, which implies the use of processors with a high degree of integration and low power consumption, will offer native Wi-Fi support at the end of this year.
To less suffer from Intel corresponding steps , ASMedia implements USB 3.2 support in its discrete controllers, which can be claimed by the manufacturers of motherboards and laptops. Realtek from the transfer of the corresponding functionality to the Intel logic sets will also suffer, but only in 2018. To the end user, the implementation of support for new interfaces through the use of Intel chipset promises to save money when buying motherboards and laptops.