The introduction of 4K televisions has increased the demands of today’s interface specifications, and the HDMI Licensing Organization has responded by releasing HDMI 2.0, a new specification that supports 4K video at up to 60 Hz, along with 32 channels of audio and a much higher overall bandwidth.
The next advancement for the USB specification, first announced in January, has been certified by the USB 3.0 Promoter Group. The new specification, to be called “USB 3.1,” will double current maximum bandwidth to 10Gbps while maintaining the backward-compatibility that USB is known for. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group, which comprises representatives from HP, Intel, Microsoft, Renesas Electronics, ST-Ericsson, and Texas Instruments, made the announcement via press release (PDF) today. SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps uses a more efficient data encoding…
After first announcing the next generation of Thunderbolt technology at the NAB show in April, Intel provided further details on the upcoming Falcon Ridge update last night during Computex. The company declared that the new technology, set for release in late 2013 or early 2014, will now be called “Thunderbolt 2” and will be capable of simultaneous 4K video transfer and display. Current Thunderbolt technology, which launched on Apple computers in early 2011, performs at 10 gigabits per second in…
Thunderbolt, the ultra-fast Intel-developed interface, will soon double in speed. Intel demoed the Falcon Ridge Thunderbolt controller Monday at NAB, the annual National Association of Broadcasters’ trade show in Las Vegas. The new design, named Thunderbolt 2, promises to double Thunderbolt’s current speeds from 10 Gbps to 20 Gbps, which equals a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 2,560 megabytes per second. The jump in performance is necessary to accommodate the video production industry, which is quickly moving to 4K resolutions…
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