AMD readying ‘Lightning Bolt‘, their answer to Intel‘s Thunderbolt

Whilst showing off their Trinity APUs at CES 2012, AMD had another little treat for visitors at their booth, a new data transfer technology called ‘Lightning Bolt’. When we say new, it’s actually a clever little manipulation of the existing USB 3.0 and DisplayPort. AMD says this solution will be a lot cheaper to implement so we could expect many notebooks to sport this in the near future, unlike Thunderbolt. While no one was able to click the pictures of the port in action, Anand Lal Shimpi managed to get to the bottom of this to see exactly what makes Lightning Bolt tick.