Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
Also, this little tidbit is patently wrong:



Intel details in their White Paper that backwards compatibility CAN be achieved by using a PCI-E bridge chip in parallel with a TB controller. This in effect would allow either add-in cards or stand-alone adaptors to be created. The press conference never mentioned that it wasn't possible, they just said that it would take additional logic to be implemented.

Here's the passage from the White Paper:
I think you are misunderstanding. that quote is talking about something different. it says a company can build an ethernet adapter that plugs into thunderbolt. meanwhile that mac site says a company cannot build a pci-e card that outputs thunderbolt because there is no way to get the video to the card.