“Intel wants Thunderbolt in april broadly introduce on pc market’

Different Asian first-tieroem manufacturers would from april 2012 Intel’s Thunderbolt interface, like screwing in motherboards, laptops and desktop pcs. Currently, the standard mainly by Apple.

According to DigiTimes, the cost for the Thunderbolt technology in the second half of 2012 so decreased, that it is for pc manufacturers to get interesting is to get in. Among others, Sony would be the Thunderbolt technology in its products to integrate, while Asus the technology in high-end laptops would use.

In addition, it would include Gigabyte, Asus and ASRock in april 2012 motherboards with Thunderbolt support.

The Thunderbolt interface is so far, pc manufacturers have not yet picked up. The high cost of the Thunderbolt extensively around 20 dollar and competition from usb 3.0 have led that there are still not very much in demand.

That changed by Apple, that the overdrachtsstandaard for video, audio and data used in the latest MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac Mini models. These models have the demand for Thunderbolt products do increase. Thunderbolt was initially incidentally by the life as ‘Light Peak’.