Two questions:
Is it royalty-free?
If the answer is negative, what are the licensing terms?
Thunderbolt
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Re: Thunderbolt
#12Codenamed Light Peak. Intel's page on Light Peak (not the same as theirs on Thunderbolt): http://techresearch.intel.com/ProjectDetails.aspx?Id=143 Wikipedia has a very informative article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Peak
It's not an implementation of Light Peak, it is what Light Peak is now called.
You're right; Developed by Intel (under the code name Light Peak). (I've corrected my comment.)
Re: Thunderbolt
#13So the whole USB2.0/Firewire is going to repeat? Sigh.
Re: Thunderbolt
#14Technically it seems nice, but what's up with reusing the "high voltage" symbol for this? And "thunderbolt" is a very tacky name...
I was surprised about the symbol as well. It's just a matter of time until someone gets hurt while trying to connect their peripherals to a transformer.
Re: Thunderbolt
#15Wonder how many monitors this can push. Also, what will happen to Apples 30pin connector on their iPods,iPhones... I guess we will know Tuesday. Are there any external hard drives with thunderbolt yet?
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#16Is this why Apple dumped FireWire a few years ago?
Re: Thunderbolt
#17How long before we can buy external graphics cards that utilize thunderbolt? It'd save me the hassle of having to build gaming PCs every couple years.
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#18It would be awesome if iPad2 had the same port... I say it's a possibility!
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#19For a moment I thought the device on the left side of the image was an apple version of this on its side ...
Re: Thunderbolt
#20So the whole USB2.0/Firewire is going to repeat? Sigh.
Seriously. As a non-Mac user, I really can't see going out of my way to use anything other than USB at this point, especially with USB3 being in the same ballpark in terms of speed.