Intel announced Thunderbolt 5. It's the same USB-C connector you know and love from Thunderbolt 4, but with 120 Gbps of bandwidth and 240W power delivery while maintaining backwards compatibility with TB3 and 4 and USB 4. Intel reckons TB4 and TB5 will co-exist for a while as TB5 is a "premium" interface. It has a cool feature called Bandwidth Boost that allows for uneven speeds for sending and receiving data. Instead of being 80/80, speeds can be tweaked to 120/40, which makes sense for stuff like high resolution/framerate displays. Dr. Ian Cutress has a blog post for anyone after a deeper dive. It's amazing how they keep on managing to squeeze more data though a copper wire. Apple could chuck TB5 into the A18 or A19 SoC in a future iPhone and let us run macOS on it. That would rule.
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