The sun-lit, snow- litpeaks, towering into the brilliant blue heavens, are not deserted as they appear.
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The Thunderbolt (nee LightPeak) controller IC is what enables it to work its multi-protocol, daisy-chaining magic.
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Earlier this year, the company showed its LightPeak technology that uses optics to deliver bandwidth of 10 Gbps and higher.
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Couple this with reports that Intel is launching LightPeak this Thursday and we have a pretty good pile of clues.
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LightPeak allows multiple protocols to travel along the same wire, where they are interpreted by a chip inside the computer.
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The rumor goes, quite convincingly, that the new range of MacBook Pros expected Thursday will incorporate LightPeak, and that Apple will rename it "Thunderbolt."
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Today's big Apple rumor concerns Intel's super-fast LightPeak connection, an optical (or copper) cable which can transmit just about anything along its skinny length.