Where art thou Dockport?

[shirowshadow]

Long time lurker,

A while back Anandtech covered the new VESA standard of Dockport which has me fascinated. Though it's been over a year since, and I've been unable to find any products for sale implementing dockport via Newegg/Amazon/Google, etc.

Am I blind, searching for the wrong term, or has there really been no implementations of the standard on the current market?


~Shirow

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Not that I can find. Probably because your motherboard or graphics card would have to have an additional chip installed to mux the USB and video signals.

Maybe it'll be included on the 3xx series Radeons?

 

[corkyg]

AMD/TI developed Dockport, but since it derives from Thunderbolt, it could still be wrapped around the axle of Intel vs. Apple rights fight.

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/05/24/amd-finally-puts-dock-port-on-a-device/

 

[gorobei]

AMD/TI developed Dockport, but since it derives from Thunderbolt, it could still be wrapped around the axle of Intel vs. Apple rights fight.

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/05/24/amd-finally-puts-dock-port-on-a-device/

vesa+TI lightingbolt became dockport, lightpeak/thunderbolt is intel, lightning is apples flavor of thunderbolt.

dockport is mostly using displayport 1.3 video and usb3.0 functions.

all will likely lose out to usb3.1 typec since it can ecompass displayport signaling and 3.1 charging.

 

[Essence_of_War]

AMD/TI developed Dockport, but since it derives from Thunderbolt, it could still be wrapped around the axle of Intel vs. Apple rights fight.

I don't believe this is correct.

Thunderbolt is a proprietary interface that mixes pcie and displayport and is pin compatible with mini displayport. It requires a specialized thunderbolt header on the motherboard/logicboard to pull pcie lanes off of a cpu. Dockport is completely independent, mixes USB 3.0 and displayport, and while it can produce some qualitatively similar effects (relatively fast io + external displays) I don't think it requires any specialized/proprietary headers and I especially don't think it's correct to say that it is derived from thunderbolt.

If there were a cynic in the room they would say dockport was vapor-also-ran-ware against thunderbolt, which is sort of funny, because thunderbolt itself is virtually non-existent outside of the apple ecosystem, and both dockport and thunderbolt look like they're getting supplanted by USB 3.1.

 

[corkyg]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7755/amds-dockport-given-virtual-overview

QED

 

[dave_the_nerd]

vesa+TI lightingbolt became dockport, lightpeak/thunderbolt is intel, lightning is apples flavor of thunderbolt.

dockport is mostly using displayport 1.3 video and usb3.0 functions.

all will likely lose out to usb3.1 typec since it can ecompass displayport signaling and 3.1 charging.

Lightning is Apple's version of the USB connector for iPhones, and is not Thunderbolt. Apple implements pretty-much-standard Thunderbolt on its systems.