Via Labs has introduced the VL830 device , one of the industry's first USB4 endpoint device controllers. This should enable peripheral manufacturers to build highly integrated USB4 hubs that will be able to compete against Thunderbolt 3/4 hubs, hopefully at lower price points.
The USB 4 specification takes a lot of pages from Intel's Thunderbolt 3 and was released in August 2019, almost a year before Intel introduced Thunderbolt 4. Yet, there are









