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0 pointszanny7y ago0 comments

One, what AMD laptop?

Two, I'd be interested to know if AMD bans board manufacturers from including TB or if they just don't do it because their heuristics say users don't care or want it.

I'd imagine now with the rise of USB-C it would be the latter. Before that AMD was stuck on a 5 year old desktop platform that probably couldn't run thunderbolt ports even if board makers wanted to include it.

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bubblethink7y ago· 1 in thread

>Two, I'd be interested to know if AMD bans board manufacturers from including TB or if they just don't do it because their heuristics say users don't care or want it

No, AMD boards already include the required TB hardware. They just can't enable it (yet) for whatever technical or legal reasons. Someone hacked them to enable it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOlQbP63lDQ)

dogma11387y ago

There is no required hardware needed for Titan Ridge to work other than a PCIe expansion slot, you need UEFI drivers for it but that's pretty standard for anything today.

fwip7y ago

A couple of newer laptops are coming with Ryzen processors. Off the top of my head, the Huawei Matebook D has an AMD option.

Intel has just now opened Thunderbolt up (the topic of this article), despite the announcement coming two years ago.

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