ASMedia to Launch USB4 Host-Controllers This Year

[Tek-Check]

I'm working on a longer piece about USB4, that should be up next week, but it's a lot more complicated than you'd think, of which some is politics, even if it's between different companies.

In a post-Covid world, I'd imagine everything is far more complex than before, from politics, economics to IP. Curious to read the piece about USB4.

 

[TheLostSwede]

In a post-Covid world, I'd imagine everything is far more complex than before, from politics, economics to IP. Curious to read the piece about USB4.

It's written and waiting to be posted.
Didn't go into too much of the politics bit, but as Intel makes Thunderbolt, which is now a superset of of USB4 if you'd like, as well as being one of the major companies in the USB-IF that dictates what goes into future USB standards, it's all a bit messy.
USB4 is a fairly open standard at least, but as so many of these "standards" it has a lot of optional parts.

 

[Tek-Check]

It's written and waiting to be posted.
Didn't go into too much of the politics bit, but as Intel makes Thunderbolt, which is now a superset of of USB4 if you'd like, as well as being one of the major companies in the USB-IF that dictates what goes into future USB standards, it's all a bit messy.
USB4 is a fairly open standard at least, but as so many of these "standards" it has a lot of optional parts.

True. At least it does not look as messy as "HDMI 2.1"

 

[TheLostSwede]

True. At least it does not look as messy as "HDMI 2.1"

It's not far off though.
The article should be up soon.

 

[Tek-Check]

It's not far off though.
The article should be up soon.

I have read it. It's brilliant. Well done for all the effort.
On desktop side, it's curious that upcoming Zen 4 CPUs and chipset do not natively support USB4. Raptor Lake chipset does not support it either. The only solution in town is currently 4242 chip for motherboards.
I am eager to see which Rembrandt laptop vendor is going to be the first to supply USB4 port with 40 Gbps taking all three protocols from APU itself and adding only PD chip in-between.
Thunderbolt 4 annoys me as it does not support FreeSync.

 

[TheLostSwede]

I have read it. It's brilliant. Well done for all the effort.
On desktop side, it's curious that upcoming Zen 4 CPUs and chipset do not natively support USB4. Raptor Lake chipset does not support it either. The only solution in town is currently 4242 chip for motherboards.
I am eager to see which Rembrandt laptop vendor is going to be the first to supply USB4 port with 40 Gbps taking all three protocols from APU itself and adding only PD chip in-between.
Thunderbolt 4 annoys me as it does not support FreeSync.

Lenovo seems to have two models out already, but the pricing is quite high at the moment.

 

[Tek-Check]

Lenovo seems to have two models out already, but the pricing is quite high at the moment.

Thanks. I saw those. Pity it's not 4K screen.
I am aslo curious about eDP 1.5 connector to monitor display. It does not seem new gen of CPUs have it as yet. No one advertises it.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Thanks. I saw those. Pity it's not 4K screen.
I am aslo curious about eDP 1.5 connector to monitor display. It does not seem new gen of CPUs have it as yet. No one advertises it.

eDP is rarely advertised. Considering AMD is going DP 2.0 only next gen, I guess that eDP 1.5 isn't likely to happen until then.

 

[Burgner]

Hello, New to this forum.

If someone had to design an ASM4242 PCIe Gen4 add in card, would it make sense to add 2 x DP RX ports on this card?

The ASM4242 design allows 2 x DP ports to come in from the Graphics Chip (internally) - This would give this theoretical add-in card internal DP input to alternatively output video through the USB-C Connector.

Trying to find a plausible use model since most desktops already have a DP output.

Thanks.