Thunderbolt: A lot of noise, but very little spark

Subu Sankaran, EETimes
7/11/2011 1:17 PM EDT

The newly released Thunderbolt interconnect provides two channels of bi-directional data transfer at 10-Gbps rates, which admittedly is way beyond an order of magnitude more than what the USB 2.0 protocol offers. In the future, that will be bolstered even further, as the interconnect will incorporate optical (hence its original name of "LightPeak") as well as copper cabling. However, this is still likely to be some way off.

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Thunderbolt: A lot of noise, but very little spark

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