Many expected Apple to be the first to the market with a product featuring Thunderbolt 2, but it looks like ASUS will beat them to the punch. The hardware company announced a new motherboard this week that features two Thunderbolt 2 ports, each capable of up to 20 Gbps.
When WWDC 2013 came and went without an update to the MacBook Pro line, many wondered what Apple was waiting for. A radical redesign, just a year after the introduction of the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, seemed unlikely, and rumors of the discontinuation of the non-Retina models wouldn’t logically explain a delay in updating the remaining members of the family. Earlier this month, an answer to the mystery finally seemed to drop: Apple was waiting for a custom CPU…
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…