Expect Hundreds of Thunderbolt Devices, Says Intel

An anonymous reader writes "Thunderbolt ports have been spotted on a PC motherboard, but the reality is that the technology is far from mainstream outside of Apple products. Which is why it is interesting to hear Intel predict that 'a hundred' Thunderbolt devices are expected to be on the market by the end of the year. The comment was made this week at Intel's presentation at IDF in Beijing. Ultrabooks with Thunderbolt are expected to appear this year."

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Re:erm... what?

[jedidiah]

> Looking at the comparisons I've found, seems that Thunderbolt is likely to put a spanner in the works for USB 3.0 support.

I think you have that backwards.

Thunderbolt is NOT the same price as USB3. It is considerably more expensive. Forgetting the legacy support aspect for a moment, you've got the very real problem that TB is at this point mostly vaporware. There are few machines or devices available outside of the Apple reality distortion field.

USB3 is already being bundled with PC motherboards. USB3 add-on cards are cheaper than a Thunderbolt CABLE. USB3 devices are much cheaper.

You have to be a pretty dedicated Apple fanboy to really believe what you posted.