Standard Thunderbolt, developed by Intel as a replacement for the current interfaces, while not widespread among the owners of Windows-based PCs. While only one Apple in droves introduced a promising technology in their machines. But the situation by the end of this year, essentially unchanged. At least, so says Intel in the face of the vice-president of the company.
Thunderbolt was first introduced more than a year ago , participated in its design engineers at Intel, in collaboration with Apple. This interface has incredible features: data transfer rate up to 10 Gbit / s (in term of up to 100 Gbit / s) at a distance of 100 meters, which is comparable to the speed HDMI, two times faster than standard USB 3.0, three times faster than eSATA / SATA 300, ten times faster than Gigabit Ethernet, and more than 20 times faster than USB 2.0 and FireWire 400.
Apple's participation in the development of the standard meant that the company became the first PC manufacturers release machines with Thunderbolt. And so it happened. First introduced in Cupertino Mac with appropriate functionality, and then appeared in Thunderbolt computers from companies Lenovo, ASUS and Acer .
At the moment the market is little more than 20 peripheral devices interface with support for Thunderbolt. First of all, this external hard drives and monitors. But the projected Intel, the end of 2012 their number will grow to hundreds of titles by the end of next year's Thunderbolt-range devices will be in the thousands.
As for the peripheral gadgets, the Thunderbolt got support in the first external hard drives from manufacturers such as Matrox, Western Digital, Seagate. Apple in addition to the list released 27-inch Display Thunderbolt .
So due to what Intel hopes to increase the popularity of the interface Thunderbolt - if more than a year, demand was Thunderbolt except among users of a Mac, why should a fracture occur in the minds of the public? Hope for a brighter future is associated with CPUs and chipsets Ivy Bridge for them. The new motherboards based on this chip will support the work of the native interface Thunderbolt. Previously, to implement similar functionality producers used the extra chips. More and more systems will be able to work with the Thunderbolt.
Of course, not be forgotten, and the usual generic USB 3.0 - both technologies are wired data transmission will be cohabiting in a single system. Moreover, in the near future there will be mobile PCs with two kinds of ports, which in turn will lead to a significant increase in range of Thunderbolt-periphery.
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