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melgross said:

rcfa said:

People forget that Apple and Intel developed TB TOGETHER. It’s not like a PROTOCOL is depending on a specific CPU 🤦🏻‍♂️

See, this is interesting. Apple is saying that they developed it together. But shortly after the technology became out, Intel said that it wasn’t true. They said that Apple came to them with the idea of a fast port, but that Intel did all the work, and that Apple had nothing to do with the development. So this statement is interesting.

I'm not sure where intel made this statement, perhaps you can reference?  I can tell you this:  Intel's original Thunderbolt was a fiber-optically based wet dream.  Apple decided to couple with Intel post-transition to make a high speed port to supersede Firewire and then DisplayPort based on copper, and both parties shared the awesome amount of work on the physical layer it took to make Thunderbolt happen.  Apple in the interest of unification and end-user simplicity also then authored most of the USB-C phy specification, after never having been part of the USB coalition by donating the IP around signal muxing (auto-polarity), legacy DP support, guest protocols, and power control (not exhaustive).  If you download the USB-C spec there is a large number of Apple authors, before that none (although they did help update usb 3 to 3.2).  Apple has been driving these interfaces in conjunction primarily with Intel for a long time, they know as much as anyone about the issues.