Thunderbolt Technology Blog

2016-03-16 19:00

This month, our team will log about 80 hours in front of Thunderbolt™ 3 gaming machines – all around the world.

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2016-01-21 14:03

This month, Lenovo is shipping two of its new mobile workstations with ThunderboltTM 3 – the ThinkPad P50 and P70. Making sure these systems are utilized to their best capacity requires a lot of attention and assistance for key customers. As such, Lane Jesseph is gearing up for a busy season ahead.

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2016-01-08 10:43

This year’s CES in Las Vegas is bigger than ever, and there are a lot of exciting things happening with Thunderbolt™ 3 here this week.  Highlights include the first external graphics gaming solution over Thunderbolt 3 from Razer, demonstrations of the first single-cable docking solutions over Thunderbolt 3 from Dell and HP, announcements of the first Thunderbolt 3 devices, and continued momentum of 6th Gen Intel® Core™ notebooks shipping with Thunderbolt 3 from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others.  Thunderbolt 3 brings Thunderbolt to USB-C at speeds up to 40 Gbps, creating one compact port that does it all – delivering the fastest, most versatile connection to any dock, display, or data device.

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2015-12-28 13:36

By Jason Ziller, Director of Thunderbolt Marketing, Intel Corporation

"I always hated – and I still don't like – movies about the future. I just think they're impossible, and somebody's always keeping score."

-Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History

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2015-12-07 17:28

CES is a trade show like no other: 170,000 attendees from 153 countries around the world, and more than two million net square feet of exhibit space for showcasing the world’s leading consumer technology. With this kind of scale and magnitude, CES is a launchpad for the year’s most anticipated product introductions.

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2015-11-11 10:39

Excitement and interest for Thunderbolt 3 continues to gain momentum with the first certified devices and systems hitting shelves now. And with any new technology, we know there will be questions and ideas for how to best leverage it.

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2015-10-14 17:08

With more than 30 PC designs with ThunderboltTM 3 anticipated in the coming year, now is the time for developers to get up to speed with this innovative technology. Thunderbolt 3 has been hailed by CNET as the “one port to rule them all.” But how will that impact developer needs? How will it improve the computing interface for media consumption and transfer speeds?

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2015-09-02 23:52

By Jason Ziller, Director of Thunderbolt Marketing, Intel Corporation

At IFA 2015, the 6th Gen Intel® Core™ processors have just been announced and are taking mobile computing to the next level with great performance, blazing-fast responsiveness and amazing battery life in a sleek, flexible form factor. Thunderbolt™ 3 will be a key feature on many of these new notebooks and 2-in-1s, hitting store shelves later this year and ramping in 2016. Thunderbolt 3 brings Thunderbolt to the USB-C port at speeds up to 40Gbps, making it the fastest, most versatile connection to your PC. As notebooks become thinner, they have fewer connectors – with Thunderbolt 3 you have the ability to connect to everything as you would on a desktop without compromising performance. Now, one computer port connects to Thunderbolt™ devices, every display, and billions of USB devices.

New Notebooks Announcing with Thunderbolt 3

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2015-08-14 09:49

By Jason Ziller, Director of Thunderbolt Marketing, Intel Corporation

In June at Computex 2015, Intel unveiled Thunderbolt™ 3 – The USB-C that does it all. Since then, we’ve seen a lot of excitement in the press and industry about Thunderbolt 3. Thunderbolt 3 brings Thunderbolt™ to USB-C at speeds up to 40 Gbps, creating one compact port that does it all – delivering the fastest#, most versatile connection to any dock, display, or data device##. For the first time, one computer port connects to Thunderbolt™ devices, every display, and billions of USB devices. A Thunderbolt 3 cable provides four times the data transfer per second and twice the video bandwidth of any other cable, while also supplying power. It’s unrivaled for new uses, such as 4K video, single-cable docks with charging, external graphics, and built-in 10 GbE networking.

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2015-08-11 17:11


For nearly 20 years, Dave Helmly has been helping creative professionals improve their skillset with Adobe software.

As a leading technology innovator and a senior manager of Adobe’s worldwide team for pro video, Helmly’s knowledge of video technology is vast. He and his team troubleshoot complicated production workflows for industries as varied as Hollywood filmmaking, broadcast and sports networks, film and journalism schools, online video and even government surveillance work.

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