Firewire ? Nah. Lightwire ! Intel demos 'optical USB' Lightpeak

[cbelt3]

Cool beans, boys and girls !

"By Barry Collins in Brussels
Intel has provided the first hands-on demonstration of a laptop running its Light Peak technology, at the company's inaugural European research showcase here in Brussels.

Light Peak is an optical interconnect that can transfer data at 10Gbits/sec in both directions. Intel hopes Light Peak will one day replace the host of other PC interconnects, including USB, DisplayPort and HDMI. "

Very, very cool.

[Seacrest]

An Intel spokesman said Light Peak hardware should start to become available to manufacturers by the end of this year.

Cool.

[Jimmypoo]

what about the CPU tax??? With 20x the data flowing???

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Is that a 17" or a 19" laptop to fit the electronics behind the O-E interface? Are they going to have a revised spec to include bus power for external devices by the end of 2010?

I would also like to see more info on the hardware and how it ties into the chipset, or a system diagram. Is this just a 10GBase-SR ExpressCard set up to run more like FireWire, or what? Will it daisychain, or need a hub?

[deckeda]

Jimmypoo wrote:
what about the CPU tax??? With 20x the data flowing???

Gonna wager it's in their best interest to keep us wanting faster CPUs to fix that little issue ...

[Racer X]

deckeda wrote:
[quote=Jimmypoo]
what about the CPU tax??? With 20x the data flowing???

Gonna wager it's in their best interest to keep us wanting faster CPUs to fix that little issue ...
of course that's the plan.

Load a car down with 500 pounds of options, and force them to buy the bigger engine because the car became a pig.

[tahoedrew]

deckeda wrote:
[quote=Jimmypoo]
what about the CPU tax??? With 20x the data flowing???

Gonna wager it's in their best interest to keep us wanting faster CPUs to fix that little issue ...
But we've officially "broken" Moore's Law; an article within the past two days said we no longer double the speed of processors in 18 months, so "faster" will be relative, and not conform to how we've defined that for more than three decades.

~A