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Re:The impossible dream of USB-C by Dylan16807 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:45AM (#15475934)
You can share bandwidth among the ports. The default option for 8 ports would use 4 PCIe lanes for each pair of ports. But even full bandwidth for all ports is 32 lanes, not too hard to do.
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Re:The impossible dream of USB-C by Filligree on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:23AM (#15476839)
How many lanes does your CPU have?
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Re:The impossible dream of USB-C by Dylan16807 on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:00PM (#15477962)
Not enough, because it's six year old tech.

But even my CPU could manage to have 8 lanes feeding a GPU and 8 lanes feeding a switch for the thunderbolt ports, something that provides enough bandwidth for the vast majority of use cases.

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