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  • Intel's Codename Light Peak Launches as Thunderbolt ( How it works )

    02/25/2011 11:32:05 AM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 12 replies
    Anandtech ^ | 2/25/2011 1:10:00 AM | Brian Klug
    Back at IDF 2010, we wrote about Intel Light Peak nearing its eventual launch in 2011. Back then, the story was a 10 Gbps or faster physical link tunneling virtually every protocol under the sun over optical fiber. Though an optical physical layer provided the speed, in reality the connector and physical layer itself wasn’t as important as the tunneling and signaling going on beneath it. The dream was to provide a unified interface with enough bandwidth to satisfy virtually everything desktop users need at the same time - DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, USB, FireWire, SATA, you name it. Daisy chain devices...