Light Peak to Connect Consumer Devices at Record Speed

At IDF09 Intel demonstrated a high-speed optical cable technology available next year that will connect mainstream electronic devices like laptops, HD displays, televisions, cameras, video players, iPods, docking stations and Solid State Drives (SSDs) to each other using optical fiber, rather than copper wires. Developed by Intel and codenamed Light Peak, this proposed technology paves the way for a new generation of extreme computer input and output (I/O) performance, delivering 10Gb/s of bandwidth, with the potential ability to scale to 100Gbs over the next decade. At 10Gb/s, a user could transfer a full-length Blu-Ray* movie in less than 30 seconds. The company intends to work with the industry to determine the best way to make this new technology a standard.

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Science & Technology

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• CIO
• Light
• Peak
• Intel
• Fiber
• Optics
• IDF09

[kurtnelle]

They should start calling it "Universal Optical Bus" and start shipping it tomorrow.

Gonna Kill USB3, SATA3, PCI Express, Ethernet, Firewire (well put the final nail) and Display Port (in its current implementation) It will be the new standard for chipset to cpu integration as well as internal connections, in everything from Netbooks to Mainframes. EPIC.

[sanarkhos]

Apple didn't fund USB. They were early adopters, but they didn't have anything to do with its technical development.

Perhaps you were referring to Firewire.

[epd0123]

Who the hell wants to go back to cables? The future is wireless. Start finding higher speeds for wireless connectivity please.

[electronicsdevice]

great video

[greysmoke321]

up to 100 gigabits in the next decade wow!!

[greysmoke321]

@kurtnelle You hit the nail on the head with your statement, I concur with you about thunderbolt killing current electrical connections and switching to light or thunderbolt.

[sajabz2007]

ET will finally get to phone home .. He would be proud of Intel ..

[asuperpower]

@kurtnelle It would be awesome, but it's still needs to be flattened out, drivers need to be more available and it needs to be cheaper. Also the general public wouldn't need anything like this, thus it wouldn't sell as well as say USB 2.0. Give it time and it'll develop.

[ducalux]

@bishoplord it hit the market couple of months ago

[bishoplord]

1/4 of the way through 2011 and I just find out about it today, LOL. This still hasn't hit the market.

[olsoldin]

@megamer1

*1 byte = 8 bits

[johnmacward]

Intel, this is COOL and everything - but tidy your lab.