Following In the footsteps of Intel, AMD also interconnect for a variety of different protocols have been developed. With a single cable via Lightningbolt not only a display to be driven, a power is agreed to be unnecessary.
The obvious reference to Intel’s Thunderbolt appears from the name Lightningbolt, that AMD on a new connection for laptops gave. The prototype that is in a room was shown, and of which no photos were allowed to be made, still works with an external chip, but in the future, the technology in laptops are integrated. There is only one cable to be ingeprikt to the laptop, for example, a docking station to connect to.
Via the single cable, which is a home-garden-and-kitchen-variant of a mini-displayport cable, can a video signal be sent and at the same time can data via usb 3.0 to be pumped. The technique supports, however, also supply power; up to 2A over the cable to be sent, sufficient to energy-efficient laptops to provide energy. Charging will, depending on the power consumption of the laptop, just slowly take place.
In addition to a significant reduction of cables has AMD’s Lightningbolt another advantage: the price. According to AMD, it costs manufacturers less than ten dollars to the technique to implement, what is the price for the end-user little would push. AMD expects the first laptops with the Lightningbolt technique in the second wave of Trinity-laptops, this year, on the market.