Apple seems to have bolted to the scene

Intel's brand new Thunderbolt technology has finally made it to one electronic product - it's called the Macbook Pro. Thunderbolt is Intel's new input/output technology that promises to bring transfer speeds that exceed what is currently available with USB 3.0, as well as extending that speed across several devices at once. The protocol will appear as an extra port on all new Macbook Pros and could soon find itself on more computers. But if Thunderbolt is to succeed, it must replace single-use types of connectors such as HDMI, DisplayPort (which requires more than double the initial 10 Gb/s in its higher end incarnations), eSATA, at least some uses of Ethernet, and ultimately, the smaller and slower speed USB devices as the cost of a Thunderbolt connector comes down.