Thunderbolt 5 will debut in 2024 with gamer-class charging.

For one, Thunderbolt is primarily a mobile solution: Ziller said that about 90 percent of all Core laptops ship with Thunderbolt, but there is a "much lower attach rate" on desktops, especially powerful gaming ones. But because of Intel's supposed refusal to certify non-Intel platforms, notebooks with AMD Ryzen chips inside use USB4; Intel Core notebooks use Thunderbolt. Although Intel has a prototype dock and laptop that it will begin showing off to customers, integrated Thunderbolt 5 will debut in laptops "in 2024", Intel executives said. [Extracted from the article]

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