2012: the year of the Thunderbolt on PC?

The Thunderbolt finally promises to break into the world of the PC next year...

performance_thunderbolt_icon20110224According to DigiTimes, the spring of 2012 will be marked by the explosion of the Thunderbolt - derived from technology LightPeak precursor connectors - in personal computers other than those of an Apple branded. Indeed, Intel would have informed its many partners that Thunderbolt technology would be fully available as of April. No doubt to accompany the release of new processors of the skier, the Ivy Bridge engraved 22 nm.

According to DigiTimes, explains what that major manufacturers are starting to design maps mothers for desktop computers and laptops incorporating the Thunderbolt. ASRock and Gigabyte are particularly cited. And everything should accelerate in the second half of the year 2012. Necessarily, if now add the Thunderbolt to a computer costs on average $ 20, the price of the components should substantially fall from mid-2012.

It would therefore be in place to unfold as Intel had imagined at one of its conferences of the last Intel Developer Forum. An event in which the important manufacturers such as Acer and Asus had announced include the integration of a Thunderbolt connector on their machines in 2012. Recently, we talking the possibility of landing on the market of many docks for ultrabooks facilitating these laptops very sedentary use mobile, simply chaining together on a single Thunderbolt screens and external hard drives for example connections...

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