Meta-Thunderbolt

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The article buries the lede halfway to the earth’s mantle so here it is:

> The Titan Ridge card creates a Thunderbolt 3 link given a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface. An eGPU connector provides a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface given a Thunderbolt 3 link. Could it be possible to drive one off the other in a demented daisy-chain? Could I create a Thunderbolt-over-Thunderbolt connection?

This diagram explains the setup: https://nocoffei.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/the_chain.pn...

What a pointless blog. “I don’t know why Thunderbolt exists. Here let me daisy chain PCIe and Thunderbolt devices to try and break it. Oh, it works, I must be cursed.”

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