Intel Shows Off First Light Peak Laptop

Barence writes "Intel has provided the first hands-on demonstration of a laptop running its Light Peak technology — an optical interconnect that can transfer data at 10Gbit/sec in both directions — at the company's inaugural European research showcase here in Brussels. Intel has fitted Light Peak into a regular USB cable, with optical fibres running alongside the electrical cabling. Intel provided a visual demonstration of how data is passed through the cable by shining a torch into one end of the cable, with two little dots of light visible to the naked eye at the other end. The demonstration laptop was sending two separate HD video streams to a nearby television screen without any visible lag. The laptop includes a 12mm square chip that converts the optical light into electrical data that the computer understands."

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Re:Server technology?

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Also called "putting all the eggs in one basket"...

Are you saying life was better back when we had PS2, Serial, Paralell, and SCSI ports on our machines?

I don't mean that to sound snide. I'm actually curious: Do you feel like with all this reliance on USB we've painted ourselves into a corner?

Re:Server technology?

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

Heh. Have you ever used software that used parallel port dongles for copy protection? For those peeps, USB was a gift from heaven.