Meanwhile, data for May has shown copper and wire cable shipments rising 18% year on year to the construction sector, although down 21% to the auto sector.
Details are still fluid on precisely what such a connector would look like and do, but the expectation is that it'll be built out of copper wire, will be flatter and thinner than Thunderbolt's rotund construction, and will be able to channel power as well as data through to devices up to 10 feet (3m) away.
He subsequently created and acquired several metallic construction firms between 1971 and 1988, including steel pipe manufacturer Metallor and Nord Metal, a manufacturer of wire mesh.