published on May 21, 2011 12: 00 PM
Ray (formerly known as peak of light) have been developed by Intel, but it is Apple who has been stealing until all the glory of the brand. The company first filed in November 2010 in Jamaica, followed in February this year to ensure the rights to the name in Canada, before registering similar claims in Europe, China and now the United States. This raises some interesting questions about the claim by Intel to be owner of the exclusive brand (see the link of coverage more) and whether or not other companies might use the mark of Ray. Intrigued, we have done a little digging and you will find what we found after the break.
We speak with Intel, and it is that as part of its collaboration in Thunderbolt Apple presented the initial trademark applications before they are transferred to Chipzilla. Therefore, there are no concerns about this being an exclusive on the brand of Cupertino. The connector will be known as Ray in all platforms provided that it meets certain basic requirements. As Intel Dave Salvator told us, "a Thunderbolt application need to use the controller chip and the connector of the lightning". This means that if Sony is in fact through a USB port, rather than jack Mini DisplayPort-as in MacBook Pros, then you have to find another name for its high-speed peripheral interface. That's not to say that he could not made compatible with a simple adapter, after all is only PCI Express in the form of cable. But, it seems, not could be called Thunderbolt.
While the beam requires a set of chips, for now, exclusively composed of Intel, there is nothing to prevent the integration in their products from other manufacturers. This is good news, especially for AMD fans fears which were to be left out. In the future the Santa Clara-based company can bring others into the fold will exceed the demand of the market its manufacturing capabilities.
For now it seems to be much of a reason for concern about the fragmentation of Android-style of the platform of Ray. In fact, Intel expects to see the brand in "many places in principles of 2012", but there does not seem to have room for others to obscure the standard. Meanwhile, USB 3.0 just keeps marching his front consolidated into peripheral domain...
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