“Intel at its Thunderbolt preview event in San Francisco on Thursday said that Apple effectively had the technology to itself for the next year,” Electronista reports. “The 10Gbps spec wasn’t exclusive to Apple, but the semiconductor firm didn’t expect other computer builders to have it until early 2012. It was up to them to decide when to leap in, Intel said.”
“Other companies won’t get the developer kit for Thunderbolt until the spring, giving Apple at least several months’ lead time. Hardware specifications will be tied to the kit and won’t be published publicly, Intel said,” Electronista reports. “Only Intel makes the needed controller chip.”
Electronista reports, “Intel took the opportunity to show Thunderbolt in action, streaming four 1080p, 10-bit encoded videos from a prototype Promise RAID drive attached to a MacBook Pro. The technique also showed very fast Final Cut Pro rendering while daisy-chained with the Promise drive, a prototype LaCie drive and a Cinema Display.”
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