Aww, I rather preferred the code name Light Peak instead.
The Fastest Data Connection to Your PC Just ArrivedSANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 24, 2011 – Intel Corporation today announced the availability of Thunderbolt™ technology, a new high-speed PC connection technology that brings together high-speed data transfer and high-definition (HD) display on to a single cable. Running at 10Gbps, Thunderbolt technology can transfer a full-length HD movie in less than 30 seconds. This Intel-developed technology is coming to market through a technical collaboration with Apple, and is available first on Apple's new line of MacBook Pro laptop computers.
Thunderbolt™ Technology
I don't really understand this, but it sounds as though it requires interfacing via a DisplayPort connector, which is not anything that I have, and is not something that many people have, so I'm not sure how much impact that it will have in general?
Two actually. PCI Express also.
Displayports are becoming more popular. A lot of the newer GFX cards have Displayports now. Displayports used mostly for displays/monitors.
Its a new buss and runs Display Port and PCIe protocols on a special Intel chip. It can be used for video on the Display Port or other devices (HDD, Cameras, etc) on the PCIe portion using a common interface. The original design used fiber connection and it can still be implemented depending on adoption by vendors. If I read it right I believe you can daisy chain multiple devices on one port so a Laptop could have one port running to a Display and then the Display would run to a Ext HDD and then hook your Camera to the HDD and they all work. Needs a lot of vendors to adopt this new interface but the potential is there.
Jim
Unfortunately not too many monitors sold today use DisplayPort. I was recently looking at video cards and some have DisplayPort in them. I then checked out monitors and found none (did not look at Apple though, maybe they have it, but I don't think I would buy them, I tend to pay way less for my monitors).
Newegg here in the U.S has at least 8 different ones listed ATM by 3 different companies that I can find, so there are some that are out there at this point. Probably more than that sold by different companies.
Newegg.com - DisplayPort
Newegg.com - DisplayPort
Newegg.com - Dell UltraSharp
Don't quote me but I'm sure I read something somewhere recently that said that Video card manufacturers were phasing out VGA and possibly DVI connections on Video cards and using HDMI/Display Port tech as this is what you get when you buy our cards,like it or lump it..I'm thinking it was Nvidia.
Sorta like Windows going 64 bit only...next OS I believe?
I cbf googling to find the article tho because I was looking at or for something else at the time so I don't remember where it was.
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