Sony joins Canon and Intel's support for interfaces Thunderbolt

recent initiative of Canon. to support a new data transfer interface from Intel - Thunderbolt, joined Sony.

Unborn Intel's Light Peak interface was recently brought to market under the name Thunderbolt. The current version of the interface from the use of optical communication channels had to be abandoned, but the cable length is not more than three meters, even now, guaranteed data transmission rate up to 10 Gbit / s. To one port of Thunderbolt, which is structurally compatible with the connector mini-DisplayPort, you can connect up to seven devices, they can also receive up to 10 watts of electrical power. Plug the device can send information on the protocols DisplayPort or PCI Express.

As the site Sony Insider, Sony is to be Thunderbolt use the interface in one of his original family of VAIO laptops. Ultra-slim notebook with Core i7 processors will run on a single charge from 8 to 16.5 hours, and the interface will be connected to the Thunderbolt brand him a plug, which will contain a discrete graphics card AMD, the optical drive Blu-ray and an impressive set of interface connectors. This will be a kind of ' Remote Docking Station ' with your own graphics. Attempts to provide laptops have an external video card companies have made Fujitsu, AMD and Asus, with the advent of Thunderbolt interface, we can observe a revival of interest in the idea.

Sony is also going to release a notebook based on the Tegra 2 processor with 11. 6 ' screen and discrete graphics card cost GeForce, which will run Google Chrome OS, and will inherit the keyboard layout from ' standard ' notebook Google Cr48. The thickness of the Sony laptop does not exceed 20 mm and weight - one kilogram of. The time of the battery reaches eight hours. This notebook will be released in the summer of 2011.

Source: sonyinsider. com, overclockers. ru, NStor Blog.