On Mar 1, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Harrison Cooper wrote:

> Thunderbolt is the new Apple interface

Intel, actually.   AKA as "Light Peak"...  Apple has a history of =20
jumping on new "standards" of somewhat questionable popularity, back =20
to the days of nuBus.  USB would be one of their (few?) success =20
stories...

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/24/intel-thunderbolt-a-closer-look/


> an easy bridge between [ embedded CPUs and/or FPGA based =20
> peripherals ] and ThunderBolt I/O from a laptop  ?

hah hah.  Well, probably not significantly worse than PCIe or =20
DisplayPort, which it apparently multiplexes.  I think those count as =20
"easy" for the big players, but even the relatively large embedded =20
systems (Cortex A8, etc) are still back at USB2 and maybe PCI.  (I see =20
some PPC chips with PCIe; probably the big ones aimed at the network =20
infrastructure market.)

BillW

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