After all, Thunderbolt 3 is Thunderbolt 3. It's USB-C compatible (an extremely smart move from Intel) and should be a plug-and-play solution for Apple's MacBook Pro. Thunderbolt 3 is used in the external GPU XConnect (Opens in a new window) standard jointly developed by Intel, AMD, and Razer. It debuted in early June 2015, and support began shipping with Skylake hardware towards the end of last year. Now, news has surfaced that Apple's newest MacBook Pro hardware may not be compatible with Thunderbolt 3 peripherals already on the market.įirst, some context: Thunderbolt 3 is the third iteration of Intel's Thunderbolt interconnect standard and is the first version of that standard to be physically compatible with USB Type-C connectors. We disagreed with that decision, while acknowledging that yes, Apple does have a long history of sunsetting old standards and introducing new ones ahead of the rest of the industry (whether or not this situation is analogous is a topic we discussed (Opens in a new window)).
When Apple unveiled (Opens in a new window) its latest MacBook Pro hardware a few weeks back, it declared that USB-C-compatible Thunderbolt 3 ports (and lots of dongles) were the future of the company's Mac division. We have removed the quote from Plugable that implied no devices with the 65982 solution could connect to the new MBPs. Akitio has also published (Opens in a new window)a list of which devices work with the MacBook Pro - and again, it's not clear why some hardware with the 82 solution work, while others don't. Update (): We've heard from Plugable that there are some Thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapters that use the TPS65982 solution and still work in the MacBook Pro.
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