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Since its introduction early last year, Thunderbolt, co-developed by Apple and Intel, has experienced a relatively slow adoption rate, with the technology formerly known as "Light Peak" featuring exclusively in Apple's Mac products and prosumer-grade storage/display offerings. The reasons for the snafu were high implementation costs (i.e $59 for 0.5m cables made by Apple) and a very stringent certification process. Intel looks like it wants to cherry pick vendors and products, turning away small time device makers and forbidding self-validation efforts, rendering the Thunderbolt ecosystem into a snob club as opposed to commonplace standards like USB.
With a choice of copper or optical fiber cabling now supplied by more vendors, and the new 'Cactus Ridge' host router bringing down costs and idle power usage, Intel is claiming more widespread availability of the technology in this year's Ultrabooks, and PC motherboard designs from the likes of ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI. We should also see more Thunderbolt enabled devices at the upcoming Computex Taipei.
With a choice of copper or optical fiber cabling now supplied by more vendors, and the new 'Cactus Ridge' host router bringing down costs and idle power usage, Intel is claiming more widespread availability of the technology in this year's Ultrabooks, and PC motherboard designs from the likes of ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI. We should also see more Thunderbolt enabled devices at the upcoming Computex Taipei.
Source: VR-Zone
