Bangalore: It was not long back that Intel told Thunderbolt 2 products would be out by end of the year; but Asus has now became the first bird to have this technology integrated into its Motherboards. The Thunderbolt 2 technology offers 20Gbps transfer speeds, and Asus’ Z87-Deluxe/Quad ATX is the first motherboard to pack the tech.

Based on the new Intel Z87 chipset and ready for the latest 4th generation Intel Core processors, the ASUS Z87-Deluxe/Quad ATX motherboard has two Thunderbolt 2 ports which allow for up to 12 simultaneously connected devices, according to the Asus press release.

Each of the two Thunderbolt 2 ports are capable of up to a 20 Gbps transfer rates and are backward compatible with first generation Thunderbolt which has four separate transfer channels - two upstream and two downstream - with a maximum transfer rate of 10Gbit/s per channel.

The second generation product has combines these four channels into two 20Gbit/s bi-directional channels, providing 4X the bandwidth of USB 3.0. which offers 5Gbps transfer rates.

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