AMD demos new, remarkably irrelevant, Lightning Bolt concept at ...

Courtesy Extremetech  Fri, 01/13/2012 - 16:01

CES is a convention where companies often demo prototype or concept technologies before they enter the mass market.

At the convention this year, AMD demonstrated its own Lightning Bolt interface, a high-speed interconnect meant to provide simultaneous support for multiple types of connections.

Unlike Intel’s Thunderbolt , Lightning Bolt is a low-cost option that doesn’t require the former’s expensive cabling or multiple controllers.

Thunderbolt debuted in 2011 as an Apple-specific feature and has gone mostly nowhere...


 

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