is it thunderbolt emulated through software on the USB pin stack? or is it really thunderbolt pins offering a USB conmector, emultating USB protocols on the thunderbolt stack?
Its capable of some pretty high bandwidths, there’s some extra hardware required to make the ports work for thunderbolt. But I think it just runs through the normal USB-C pins.
Its more like an internal switch, rather than emulation.
At least the Wikipedia page mentions different pin configurations per usage mode…
I asked a slop machine and it said that Thunderbolt is implemented in the PCIe/Displayport hardware mode of the USB. I then checked the wikipedia and it more or less aligned with that interpretation
aren’t these different tech stacks and connectors?
used to be, not anymore though, thunderbolt uses the same ports as USB C and is compatible with USB C, you can think of thunderbolt as enhanced USB C
is it thunderbolt emulated through software on the USB pin stack? or is it really thunderbolt pins offering a USB conmector, emultating USB protocols on the thunderbolt stack?
i’m sorry, i don’t know the details of how it’s implemented exactly
Its capable of some pretty high bandwidths, there’s some extra hardware required to make the ports work for thunderbolt. But I think it just runs through the normal USB-C pins.
Its more like an internal switch, rather than emulation. At least the Wikipedia page mentions different pin configurations per usage mode…
I asked a slop machine and it said that Thunderbolt is implemented in the PCIe/Displayport hardware mode of the USB. I then checked the wikipedia and it more or less aligned with that interpretation