Intel's Got a Special Event Planned for Tomorrow
There’s been a lot of Light Peak talk over the last week or so, mainly because of the rumors about its presence in the not-yet-announced new MacBook Pro line-up. However, this Hump Day, Intel itself is fuelling the Light Peak discussion.
Yesterday evening Intel released a statement to the media indicating that it would be hold hold a press briefing in San Francisco on Thursday to discuss a new technology that is about to appear on the market. Thursday will also reportedly play host to a technology and product demonstration event at Intel’s Santa Clara campus.
Of course, this little piece of news hasn’t slipped by those monitoring the Apple rumor mill religiously and many see it as yet another sign that Apple’s new, Light Peak-equipped MBPs will be announced tomorrow. Adding fuel to the fire is an Engadget posting that points to a purported spec-sheet for the 13-inch MacBook Pro. The bit that’s garnering the most attention is the mention of highspeed I/O technology dubbed Thunderbolt. Of course, there’s nothing to suggest that this ‘Thunderbolt’ feature is an implementation of Light Peak, but it kind of makes sense. Either way, we’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out.

And a phone...
I hope somebody manages to obtain more information about the Intel 510 series solid state drives that are due to be released on March 1st.
still under NDA / embargo, however, they will be more $$/GB than Gen2 drives. Still worth getting one, as I will put my old Gen2 into my PS3.
I felt nothing. Maybe I have a conflict somewhere....
Especially during such hard times money wise for everyone who isn't the top 1% in the world with all the money lol.
Just like you can't call something Gingerbread unless it uses gingerbread? Riiight.
And LightPeak doesn't? I think you'll find that LightPeak is a fibre optic based connection which does indeed use light frequencies for it's bandwidth, which by the way is the basis for quantum computing.
HAHA, good one...
Additionally, and unrelated, Shouldn't something called Light Peak be coupled with something called Lightning Bolt not Thunder Bolt? Thunder is sound, lightning is light...
Actually it is a term that means the same thing. Thunder Clap refers to the noise... Thunder Bolt refers to the bolt of lightning...
the beta version of lightpeak (aka the one in the MBP) will probably not use light, but instead use a copper based connection (maybe thats why they called it thunderbolt instead....)
@burnley14
i guess you missed the point that lightpeak was suppose to actually use light......
So is Intel and Motorola going to get into a legal battle over who owns the "Thunderbolt" trademark?