High Performance Laptops is in San Jose at Intel’s Developer Conference called, Intel Innovation. On display was an unspecified Gigabyte gaming laptop – which just happens to look exactly like an Aorus 17X. We weren’t allowed to touch it but we took a few photos. More importantly the booth host walked us through how it was apparently the first Thunderbolt 5 laptop to be seen in public, anywhere.
Despite the hush-hush, it was still, likely one of the already-released 13th-Gen ‘Raptor Lake’ laptops but with a discreet (i.e. bolted-on) Thunderbolt 5 chip, codenamed, ‘Barlow Ridge.’ Here’s the short video which also features the first Thunderbolt 5 dock which uses the same chip.
Transcript
So, what is it? What are the chips inside, right? OK, this is a next generation platform representing what a player or gamer would have. This is a Raptor Lake, HX-refresh-based platform. It has Thunderbolt 5 with our discreet, Barlow Ridge chip. Barlow Ridge is the code name for our chip. And then again, we’ve got our Barlow Ridge in a prototype Thunderbolt 5 dock that provides all the productivity for this.
In case you can’t remember what Thunderbolt 5 is and how it differs to USB, check out our TB5 announcment article, here.
Last Updated on 21 September 2023 by Nick Ross
