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FunFan said:
SmileyAja said:

"The external GPU dock on display from ASUS is a little different again to the laptops and AIO mentioned in the previous paragraph, by taking the PCIe lanes and passing the data over a Type-C interface. Using a proprietary IC, ASUS is able to carry 32 Gbps of data over a passive Type-C cable (note, Thunderbolt 3 is limited to 20 Gbps over passive) to a dock that can decode the data. That being said, there were two data cables going from the dock to the laptop, making me think that this is actually two lots of 20Gbps maximum and the IC logic is there to reconstruct the bits from different PCIe lane data streams."

if AsusTek can do, so can anyone else. Nintendo hasn't give us the specs and the chances of it working just like any standar Type-C are slim, not necessarily because Nintendo would use it for extra performance but because of their agressive anti-piracy stance.

There's very likely no proprietary tech in the USB-C port, piracy argument doesn't make sense since other USB ports are very much standard. My point was that it was using two cables, and the Nintendo Switch doesn't have two USB-C ports to make those transfer speeds. I highly doubt Nintendo is secretly using Thunderbolt or has an upgraded version with faster transfer speeds, but I'd love to be wrong.