“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,” Agam Shah reports for IDG News Service.
“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,” Shah reports. “For the majority of user needs today, copper is good, Perlmutter said. But data transmission is much faster over fiber optics, which will increasingly be used by vendors in Light Peak implementations.”
Shah reports, “It would transfer data at bandwidths starting at 10 gigabits per second over distances of up to 100 meters. But with copper wires, the speed and range of data transmission may not be as great.”
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@AlanAudio sez: “The point is that LP promises one interface for everything.”
Yes, but isn’t it obvious that the so-called “ready to go” PRELIMINARY version of “Light Peak” will NOT have a final connector?! IT USES COPPER and NO FIBER OPTICS.
Therefore, there is no sane way to say Light Peak is ‘ready to go’. That’s pure bullshit. Once Light Peak is actually finished, meaning it is optical AND copper, THEN we can cheer about having one I/O port that lets you connect to everything.
Until then, this is a frickin’ JOKE, an excuse to separate money from the ‘meat-with-money’ customer, yet another not-ready-for-prime-time technology that will force everyone who uses it to upgrade to yet-another version once it is ACTUALLY finished.
IOW: STFU Intel until you’re really ready to go.
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