Advanced Micro Devices said that it saw no future in the bus Thunderbolt announced last week that Apple and Intel. It should be understood that the firm does not count in its chipsets incorporate any time soon. AMD has not participated in the development of this standard. It could still buy a license.
That is what we have already made many hard drive manufacturers including Seagate, which was also outside the project (see "Thunderbolt: hard drives in Nikon SLR) The company said however that the reasons for rejection are technological. He believes the Thunderbolt does not gain enough to justify its adoption and it reduces the bandwidth offered to the screens since the DisplayPort 1.2 can handle 17 Gb / s.
To recap, the Thunderbolt is limited in theory to 10 Gb / s (see "Thunderbolt: 10 gigabit / s, 10 W, Light Peak"). For now, AMD's attitude will change nothing to the adoption of the Thunderbolt, which depends on the manufacturers of devices and motherboards. Even Intel's chipsets are currently not compatible with this technology that requires a controller is added to the system.
This means that we should first find this technology on platforms more upscale because of the extra costs that the addition of a chip will generate. The target audience is anyway the one who will benefit from such bandwidth. In short, forget the memory card readers, this technology is for SSD devices and other high demand.
If several manufacturers of external hard drives that are already manifest, the motherboard manufacturers have remained silent. 
That is what we have already made many hard drive manufacturers including Seagate, which was also outside the project (see "Thunderbolt: hard drives in Nikon SLR) The company said however that the reasons for rejection are technological. He believes the Thunderbolt does not gain enough to justify its adoption and it reduces the bandwidth offered to the screens since the DisplayPort 1.2 can handle 17 Gb / s.
To recap, the Thunderbolt is limited in theory to 10 Gb / s (see "Thunderbolt: 10 gigabit / s, 10 W, Light Peak"). For now, AMD's attitude will change nothing to the adoption of the Thunderbolt, which depends on the manufacturers of devices and motherboards. Even Intel's chipsets are currently not compatible with this technology that requires a controller is added to the system.
This means that we should first find this technology on platforms more upscale because of the extra costs that the addition of a chip will generate. The target audience is anyway the one who will benefit from such bandwidth. In short, forget the memory card readers, this technology is for SSD devices and other high demand.
If several manufacturers of external hard drives that are already manifest, the motherboard manufacturers have remained silent.
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