AMD has ‘Dock Port’ is announced. This is a kind of alternative to Intel’s Thunderbolt, formerly known as Lightningbolt known. The port must ultraportables powered via a single cable, and dock with three external monitors and peripherals to connect.
In early 2012, gave AMD a glimpse of his Thunderbolt variant Lightningbolt, a name that clearly to Intel’s competing technology referred. With the release of the new Richland-apus for laptops, AMD announced the designation for the ports to fit in to ‘Dock Port’. Other than Thunderbolt’s Dock Port specifically for connection of laptops with docking stations referred to, which is the new name should clarify. Both Dock Port as Thunderbolt are on displayport-based, but Intel combines the interconnect with pci-e, while AMD usb 3.0 choose.
Dock Port on the laptops with Richland-apu, using a standard displayport socket. Through a displayportkabel the laptop on a docking station be connected to the laptop and then to recharge. Charging will not, however, rapid: there can be up to 2A over the cable to be sent.
The laptop can then use the single cable and the docking station and three external screens power, which in combination with gpu-acceleration, Eyefinity setups at your fingertips. In addition, the laptop computer via the port, with usb peripherals such as hdds, smart phones and input devices to connect to, although that option expires on the 1920×1200 display on four screens. The big advantage over the Thunderbolt would be especially in the area of costs.
