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Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control by valuearb on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:08AM (#25188217)
Apple is the developer of thunderbolt,They wrote the specifications for it and there are two thunderbolt ports on every M1 Mac
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Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control by dreamcompiler on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:28AM (#25188447)
Intel invented Thunderbolt as LightPeak. Apple developed it further in cooperation with Intel.
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Re:Apple’s M1 silicon is all about platform control by valuearb on Monday November 23, 2020 @11:46AM (#25188643)
You are right. I forgot about LightPeak, which was designed to work over optical cables.

Apple came in when Intel decided to build a version for standardized cables, and helped Intel develop the spec (and even supplied the name).

But my point remains. Apple knows Thunderbolt as well as Intel does by this time.

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