The Register’s Chris Mellor says that now we know why Intel was dragging its feet with USB 3.0 support – it’s got its own competing interconnect that’s twice as fast in Thunderbolt (formerly known as Light Peak). Thunderbolt is a 10Gbit/s, bi-directional, dual channel, copper link containing an Intel controller chip and supporting two protocols: DisplayPort and PCIe — basically a serial bus… Mellor predicts […]
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