Electronista reports, “Adapters using Apple’s concept would work ‘without requiring any additional cables or connectors,”‘ and power a peripheral ‘without requiring a host, peripheral or hub to remain powered on.’ More significantly, the patent mentions that devices would be able to ‘operate on buses that do not supply power.’ The wording is believed to refer to an optical connection type such as Light Peak.”
More info, including Apple’s patent application illustrations, in the full article here.
Light Peak on the iPad 2 – yes please!
Is any other company adopting Light Peak? It’s only useful on my Mac if there is another Light Peak device to plug it into.
LightPeak is not even out yet, anevilmeme. Intel is developing it in collaboration with Apple, among others. Apple is believed to be one of the main drivers behind the project and it makes sense. Electrical buses are reaching their limit, optical is the next best solution. But how they plan to handle powering the device, if it needs power? USB and Firewire can pass along power, does LightPeak? I’ll have to research.
Googled: “What is Light Peak”
URL: http://techresearch.intel.com/ProjectDetails.aspx?Id=143
“Light Peak is 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. . Light Peak components are expected to begin to become available to customers in late 2010, and Intel expects to see Light Peak in PCs and peripherals in 2011.”
does this mean that you will a new computer?
or will we be able to use (usb/firewire/ethernet???)
The original iPod was firewire and was a revelation when you plugged it in and blazed through your download. Most of the kids don’t have any recollection of that.
A LP interface on iOS devices would be amazing. Betcha it’ll happen. iCal me.
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@Becks87,
You have to buy a new computer with the LightPeak port.
G3 iBook with USB 1.1 to Light Peak adapter, oh yeah!
@aa Attendee,
“G3 iBook with USB 1.1 to Light Peak adapter, oh yeah!”
I’m more psyched about Micro$oft”s answer to Light
peak – Dark Valley.
Light Peak renders USB3 obsolete.
USB3 is the Kindle.
Apple will legitimize Light peak in the same way they legitimized:
3 1/2″ floppies
USB
FireWire
Airport wireless
etcetera…
available for customers late 2010? are you kidding me? it’s really late 2010. it’s not even out, still concept. Apple is only company which will adapt this technology because they first have got into. I don’t think that other companies will do. I can see another fail like firewire. don’t expect it.
Apparently, Lenovo is also waiting for Lightpeak.
Apple Applied to patent something that someone claims infringes an existing patent. That’s why there is a patent application process, which includes the ability of others to protest the application.
http://musclexedgereview.com
Originally submitted in July, the document is titled Power Adapters For Powering And/Or Charging Peripheral Devices. ‘More particularly,’ Apple notes, ‘the present invention relates to improved techniques for powering and/or charging peripheral..
http://naturacleanse.org/
“Light Peak” is a good moniker, but I prefer “Snappy Blast”.
I wouldnt be surprised if they included a copper pin to transmit power within the lightpeak cables, while the optics would transmit data. It makes perfect sense to me.
And from intel’s demo video, Lightpeak is slated to replace:
USB
HDMI? (or any type of display interface- they had Ultra HD displays with 4x the 1080p resolution thru lightpeak)
Networking (they connected two computers to transfer data)
you guys should see the demo video
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I’ve always used Urethranet… Still pisses all over other protocols.
“Is any other company adopting Light Peak? It’s only useful on my Mac if there is another Light Peak device to plug it into.”
More Light Peak peripherals would definitely make it more useful, but it would still be useful to many if it were just on Macs. You could plug a Mac Laptop into another Mac and copy gigs of data in seconds.
At 10Gb/s, you could transfer a full-length Blu-Ray movie in less than 30 seconds…. GOOD. I want one. Time to upgrade from the G5. But, can this be used to replace the cuircit board? If the lightpeak is faster than copper than…???
UPDATE:
Yah, but can you BURN a blu-ray in 30 sec?