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Intel pushes optical cable
CHIP MAKER Intel is developing a high-speed optical cable technology designed to be able carry HD video, audio and data traffic on a single cable.
Code named 'Light Peak', the fibre optic cabling is expected to be available next year and will be able to connect mainstream electronic devices like laptops, HD displays, televisions, cameras, video players, iPods, docking stations and Solid State Drives to each other a speeds of up to 10Gbit/s.
Demonstrating the technology at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Dadi Perlmutter, the executive vice president of the Intel Architecture Group, said he hoped Light Peak would help end the tangle of cabling he was forced to carry around with him to connect his laptop to various devices including external monitors, speakers, media players, storage devices and so on.
According to Perlmutter, Light Peak has the potential ability to scale to 100Gbit/s over the next decade.
Light Peak also has the ability to run multiple protocols simultaneously over a single cable, enabling the technology to connect devices such as peripherals, workstations, displays, disk drives, docking stations, and more.
Details are still sketchy at the moment, but Intel has said it is working with the industry on existing I/O standards and ways of accelerating adoption.
Light Peak components are expected to start ship in 2010, with plans to scale the bandwidth to 100Gbit/s over the next decade. µ
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need wireless power supply to go with it.
Think of Fools Whom Paid so Dearly for Fibre Optics this decade, yesterday 40 Gb/s Copper was announce with twintech 100 Gb/s Copper in Wings.Hey-ITS' LAN PORT Thangie.
Optical cost Fortune, Then bend stuff in right angles, instead of using extisitng easements. You got to go to Sleep to Enjoy Optical Data.
One Wire to Live....Cascading Fountains of Liquid Metals.
Drashek PS Don't EAT 'd Gold Snow.
Data+A/v....why not just use MMF optical cable using 10gbase-SR (and eventually 40gbase/100gbase). It's already there, why re-invent the wheel with yet another cabling/connection standard?
Jeff isn't interested in technology. He cares nothing for the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his Time, forty-three species of parrots! nipples for men! concentrated evil!
If I were creating the world I would have started with lasers, Über o'clock, Day One!
I shall have understanding of computers. And when I have understanding of computers,
I shall be
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Just Sayin' let them beat licht
They keep throwing these things up against the wall to see if they stick. It's a great deal for Intel - control most of the IP, have a head start in rolling out support in custom silicon, and get to decide who gets access and who doesn't.
Most of the time it works (except when it doesn't - remember RDRAM, Infiniband, and FB-DIMM?), so why stop?
Clearly the intent here is to supplant HDMI as the AV cable standard, thus getting around SI's ridiculous HDMI royalties. A worthy cause...among many Intel has fought over the years.
Beyond the rhetoric, PC prices would be a lot higher if Intel had not indeed supplanted technologies with "free" alternatives...
As as shareholder, I'd prefer if Intel was a little greedier though.
How this new optical cable will consolidate Dado's slew of cables is beyond my limited comprehension...
In Stunning Revelation, Apple actually Hired Intel to develope its own: LightPeak. Hopes are to Start fresh with NEW Standard that won't have USB3 trouble of report lately. Its ALL here:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/26/exclusive-apple-dictated-light-peak-creation-to-intel-could-be/#continued
DRASHEK