THE TIMING OF Intel’s announcement of Thunderbolt 5 was surely no coincidence — 12 September, the same day that Apple launched the iPhone 15, and finally brought USB–C to the iPhone range as well. There’s an irony there, though, as Intel’s announcement was obviously overshadowed by Apple’s iPhone extravaganza, even though it’s always been Apple that championed the use of the Thunderbolt interface tech, long before it was adopted by the manufacturers of Windows PCs.
But, believe it or not, it was actually Intel that developed Thunderbolt in the first place — although it was originally called Light Peak when it was first introduced by Intel in 2009. Light Peak was initially intended to run on fibre–optic cables, but Intel
