Light Peak - to replace USB

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http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm

Light Peak Technology

 
Bringing optical to the mainstream
"Sony is excited about the potential for Light Peak technology that Intel has been developing, and believe it could enable a new generation of high-speed device connectivity."
                                   - Ryosuke Akahane, Vice President of VAIO Business Group, Sony
"Nokia believes that Light Peak technology enables new wired connectivity solutions for Mobile Computers and Smartphones, and looks forward to working with Intel and the industry to create a global standard based on Light Peak technology."
                                   - Markku Verkama, Director, Devices R&D Technology, Nokia

   

Light Peak Overview

Light Peak is the code-name for a new high-speed optical cable technology designed to connect your electronic devices to each other. Light Peak delivers high bandwidth starting at 10Gb/s with the potential ability to scale to 100Gb/s over the next decade. At 10Gb/s, you could transfer a full-length Blu-Ray movie in less than 30 seconds. Optical technology also allows for smaller connectors and longer, thinner, and more flexible cables than currently possible. Light Peak also has the ability to run multiple protocols simultaneously over a single cable, enabling the technology to connect devices such as peripherals, displays, disk drives, docking stations, and more.

Existing electrical cable technology in mainstream computing devices is approaching practical limits for speed and length, due to electro-magnetic interference (EMI) and other issues. However, optical technology, used extensively in data centers and telecom communications, does not have these limitations since it transmits data using light instead of electricity. Light Peak brings this optical technology to mainstream computing and consumer electronic devices in a cost-effective manner.




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Sony/Intel are fairly powerful companies.

My favorite understatement of the month!  I'd say that if Intel and Sony are pushing a technology, there is a high likelihood that it will be accepted....if the public wants it or not ;-)

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Quote from:  vanceg on April 21, 2010, 09:47:29 PM
I'd say that if Intel and Sony are pushing a technology, there is a high likelihood that it will be accepted....if the public wants it or not ;-)

While I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment above I can't help but remember something called the BetaMax & more recently the HD-DVD... So if another consortium comes up with something to compete then all bets could still be off!
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Sony owns BluRay, MCK...and we know that the porn industry made those choices, not the companies.

Intel has been showing lightpeak for some time now..at least a year...

Current plans seem to use lightpeak for cable runs, but we still need regular solid-state connectors, so my interest isn't too high on this one.
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As predicted 10 months ago, Intel LightPeak Hi speed ports are arriving soon - New Macbook Pro 13" which debuts next week will have it. (will be announced Mar.2, 2011 - along with new iPAd 2)

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/23/closer-look-photo-of-thunderbolt-light-peak-port/

http://techresearch.intel.com/ProjectDetails.aspx?Id=143







http://www.techspot.com/news/42526-intel-hints-at-light-peak-launch-tomorrow.html

Intel has invited journalists to a pair of events in California this Thursday, where it will "discuss a new technology that is about to appear on the market" and conduct technology and product demonstrations. The event is perhaps not so coincidentally timed with the rumored refresh of Apple's MacBook Pro lineup, which will reportedly introduce Intel's Sandy Bridge processors on that same day, as well as a connector based on Light Peak technology.

The new interconnect is said to offer two-way transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps, which is more than double the maximum throughput of USB 3.0 connectors that Apple has been reluctant to adopt. In the future, Light Peak may scale to 100Gbps and Intel hopes it will serve as a single universal replacement for current buses such as SATA or USB, but that's certainly not going to happen in its first implementations -- especially with the switch back to copper cabling.

There's no solid evidence that we'll see the new connector on products this week but it would coincide with the time frame Intel laid out for Light Peak's debut, and at the very least it seems new MacBooks are indeed around the corner.
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