Intel and Apple raised a storm on Thursday for a new connection standard called Thunderbolt – formerly codenamed Light Peak. It sounds lightning fast and it is – with data transfer speeds of 10 gigabits per second. But it is not being widely embraced initially and competes with the more generally supported USB 3.0 standard. That provides an ample 5Gb/s of connectivity – 10 times as fast as the previous USB 2.0 generation. Read more