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Intel says Light Peak interconnect technology is ready
« on: January 08, 2011, 10:20:16 PM »
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Intel says Light Peak interconnect technology is ready
Light Peak is designed to link PCs to devices like displays and external storage
By Agam Shah
January 8, 2011 11:59 AM ET

IDG News Service - An Intel executive on Friday said that its Light Peak interconnect technology, designed to link PCs to devices like displays and external storage, is ready for implementation.

Light Peak, announced in 2009, was originally designed to use fiber optics to transmit data among systems and devices, but the initial builds will be based on copper, said David Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of Intel's Architecture Group, in an interview with IDG News Service at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

"The copper came out very good, surprisingly better than what we thought," Perlmutter said. "Optical is always a new technology which is more expensive," he added.

Perlmutter declined to comment on when devices using Light Peak would reach store shelves, saying shipment depended on device makers. Intel has in the past said that devices with Light Peak technology would start shipping in late 2010 or early this year.

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9204158/Intel_says_Light_Peak_interconnect_technology_is_ready

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Re: Intel says Light Peak interconnect technology is ready
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2011, 07:12:48 AM »
Its been rumored that Apple will be the first to adopt this. They do have a history of early adoption of new connection standards (USB on first iMac, FireWire). Personally I do not see a need for this with USB, Firewire, and eSATA all being 3Gbps+ now, do we really need another connection standard to support?  ???
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Re: Intel says Light Peak interconnect technology is ready
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2011, 07:52:09 AM »
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No, we do not need another connection standard unless it can be 2x as fast as what we have now.


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Re: Intel says Light Peak interconnect technology is ready
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2011, 11:16:54 PM »
Its been rumored that Apple will be the first to adopt this. They do have a history of early adoption of new connection standards (USB on first iMac, FireWire). Personally I do not see a need for this with USB, Firewire, and eSATA all being 3Gbps+ now, do we really need another connection standard to support?  ???
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USB 2.0 speeds top out at about 480Mbps, while USB 3.0 promises speeds as high as 5Gbps. However, Intel officials have talked about Light Peak hitting 10Gbps or more, and with data moving in both directions at the same time.

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/c/a/News/Intel-Light-Peak/


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Light Peak is a proprietary optical cable interface designed by Intel to connect devices in a peripheral bus. The technology has a high bandwidth at 10 Gbit/s,[2] with the potential to scale to 100 Gbit/s by 2020.[3]

Currently in development, Light Peak is being developed as a single universal replacement for current buses such as SCSI, SATA, USB, FireWire, PCI Express and HDMI, in an attempt to reduce the proliferation of ports on contemporary computers. Bus systems such as USB were developed for the same purpose, and successfully replaced a number of older technologies. However, increasing bandwidth demands have led to higher performance standards like eSATA and DisplayPort that cannot connect to USB and similar peripherals. Light Peak provides a high enough bandwidth to drive these over a single type of interface, and often on a single daisy chained cable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Peak