Re:Connecting a gaming PC to Apple Studio Display
by mschuster91 on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @03:17AM
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> He purchased a TB monitor to plug into a device that doesn't support TB and says "it shouldn't be this hard".
For what it's worth, it shouldn't be hard from a purely technical point of view to create a DisplayPort-to-TB adapter - all that should be needed is a Thunderbolt chip with a DP connector for input and a TB connector for the output.
The problem is Intel has had exclusive control over TB chips [1] and never released datasheets or made the chips otherwise widely available if you did not order a ridiculous MOQ and signed on for an expensive NDA and got their blessing to implement something like this.
Maybe we will see something like this in the next years, now that the TB spec is pretty much an open standard - eventually some third party will finally be able to develop a TB chipset.
Re:Connecting a gaming PC to Apple Studio Display
by gumby on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @09:02AM
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TB & USB 4 (which are the same these days) carries video as DisplayPort by default so a Tb-DisplayPort cable is a relatively simple device and is widely available.
For what it's worth, it shouldn't be hard from a purely technical point of view to create a DisplayPort-to-TB adapter - all that should be needed is a Thunderbolt chip with a DP connector for input and a TB connector for the output.
The problem is Intel has had exclusive control over TB chips [1] and never released datasheets or made the chips otherwise widely available if you did not order a ridiculous MOQ and signed on for an expensive NDA and got their blessing to implement something like this.
Maybe we will see something like this in the next years, now that the TB spec is pretty much an open standard - eventually some third party will finally be able to develop a TB chipset.
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-motherboard-asrock-fir...