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The new Thunderbolt interface is less about raw speed than about display connectivity and better device charging.  Thunderbolt 4 has a number of significant advantages. For starters, it doubles the minimum video and data requirements of Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 4 supports sending a video signal to two 4K displays, or to one 8K display, where Thunderbolt 3 is required to support only a single 4K display. And where Thunderbolt 3 systems have to support only a 16Gbps data rate via PCI Express, Thunderbolt 4 doubles that requirement to 32Gbps. That added bandwidth will certainly be put to good use by...

Thunderbolt 3 - Why You Need the World's Fastest Port?  If you want to connect your notebook to multiple 4K displays, attach a graphics amp, transfer giant files to the fastest external drives or grab RAW video from an expensive camera, you should get Thunderbolt 3. With a maximum speed of 40Gbps, it's the fastest port on the market today.  40Gbps, 4 x speed of the Fastest USB Connection: Thunderbolt 3 is capable of transmitting at a rate of 40Gbps, which is a lot quicker than USB 3.1's rate of 10 Gbps or USB 3.0's limit of 5 Gbps. It's also...

USB 4.0 - The Next Generation of USB  USB has been one of the best examples of a standardised system that has brought convenience and compatibility. A new version 4.0, is in the works, but what is USB 4.0, how does it differ from previous versions of USB, and will it support previous versions of USB? What is USB?USB is an acronym and stands for Universal Serial Bus. As the name suggests, USB is a serial connection meaning that all data is transmitted bit by bit (whereas parallel busses transmit multiple bits at the same time). USB was devised in...