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Thunderbolt and Light Peak remind me of the Clint Eastwood film Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, which is a yarn about bank robbers who like to blast open safes using a 20-mm cannon. In this case, Thunderbolt refers to the new high-speed display and data connection from Intel and Apple, but it still packs plenty of firepower.
The Thunderbolt architecture combines two existing standards: PCI Express and DisplayPort (Fig. 1). It could challenge USB 3.0 in many areas, but it tends to be complementary because of its display capability, which is secondary for USB. It competes against similar alternatives like the Displaylink...