Intel’s new high speed data transfer technology,Thunderbolt I/O will hit the PC market in Australia in April 2012 with several vendors set to launch new notebooks and Ultrabooks incorporating the technology.
According to Digitimes, several of the new PC devices with incorporate Intel’s new 22nm Ivy Bridge processors.
Both I/O technologies offer transfer speeds far in excess of what USB 2.0 is capable of (USB 3.0 is ten times faster, Thunerbolt is twice as fast again) but the beauty of Thunderbolt is that any one machine would only need one port.
Every Thunderbolt device has an in and an out port, which means instead of having five peripherals plugged into the back of your PC, they’d be daisychained together with only one physically attached to your machine.
Among the first to have the new technology will be Toshiba, Acer and Asus.
