By Darren Allan
A wide range of connectivity is obviously important, but nobody likes ports and cables which clutter up the place – but the good news is that the likes of USB ports are decidedly on the wane as we look towards a future of wireless notebooks that dispense with physical connectors completely.
That’s the word from a new study conducted by ABI Research, which observed that USB-Type C and Thunderbolt 3.0 will be the last type of physical ports in existence because their successors will be wireless alternatives.
What wireless alternatives? Namely WiGig (Wireless Gigabit, aka 802.11ad) which offers blazingly fast wireless speeds, and is already in use with some laptops and docking stations including hardware from Dell, Asus and Acer which will be shipping this year.
Slow and steady transition
ABI Research notes that momentum will then build going forward, and not just for laptops and PCs but mobile devices and the likes of displays. That said, the transition to WiGig is likely to be a slow and steady one, with notebooks keeping some ports (or perhaps just one port) to maintain compatibility with legacy hardware and for other reasons.
Andrew Zignani, Industry Analyst at ABI, commented: “We anticipate there to be WiGig-enabled …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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