Light Peak Technology

Intel demonstrated a high-speed optical cable technology (will be able next year) that will connect computers, laptops, displays, televisions, SSDs and other consumer devices at 10Gb/s using optical fiber. How fast is 10Gb/s? According to this, you could transfer a full-length Blu-Ray movie in less than 30 seconds.

geezus why dont they just make the cables a lot longer and hook up our whole pc's to the world wide web at crazy fast speeds? wait...

More speed to more distances to more devices to Moores law, what Intel's been doing is amazing.

and physical media is still the same old slow-ass bottleneck its always been...

He looks like a young George Bush

For the consumer market, fiber has to be a lot more durable than I think it is today.
I'm not sure they can make a fiber cable nearly as durable as your typical ethernet cable is today, and without the durability, consumers are going to hate it and shun it...

Geeks will love it, 10G? That's insane. But if somebody trips over it and we have to buy another expensive cable, we won't be too happy.

Originally Posted by griff30

He looks like a young George Bush

lawl, he kinda does! :P

Originally Posted by DrVal

For the consumer market, fiber has to be a lot more durable than I think it is today.
I'm not sure they can make a fiber cable nearly as durable as your typical ethernet cable is today, and without the durability, consumers are going to hate it and shun it...

Geeks will love it, 10G? That's insane. But if somebody trips over it and we have to buy another expensive cable, we won't be too happy.

Huh? There's nothing difficult about making strong fiberoptics...

Considering you can get a 10M cable for $10, I can't really see them being anything but cheap once mass adoption starts.

Media companies will squash the capabilties somehow when it comes to transferring their content.

Originally Posted by griff30

He looks like a young George Bush

I was thinking the same thing

Thats great and all, but if your server's drives are only capable of 60MB/s reads, well it means nothing really.

Lightpeak ssd's please!

I hope they begin integrating fiber optics into circuit boards one day as the main transportation device of data. Instead of metal on silicon, how 'bout optic fibers on some other, cheaper material?

Is that plausible/possible/etc?

Originally Posted by DrVal

For the consumer market, fiber has to be a lot more durable than I think it is today.

How many audio fiber optic cables have you trashed in the last 10 years?

Originally Posted by inotocracy

Thats great and all, but if your server's drives are only capable of 60MB/s reads, well it means nothing really.

This.

Still, I can see applications for it in the professional realm.

Originally Posted by stop!theradio

I hope they begin integrating fiber optics into circuit boards one day as the main transportation device of data. Instead of metal on silicon, how 'bout optic fibers on some other, cheaper material?

Is that plausible/possible/etc?

It would just be more complicated and expensive due to having to convert the optical signals. Its not like there is a ton of metal involved to begin with.

This looks great, the prospects and the actual lab! Tech heaven. Let us hope that this is realized on the main street market one day, by being supported and adopted by the industry. But only if it turns out to be the best best for a future interconnect.

seriously, Obama needs to give intel billions and billions of dollars and let them build whatever they want

shit, I did a double take before I realized that was G instead of M. wowzors.

It's about time already.

With this coming out in roughly the same time frame, how will USB 3.0 be affected? The one saving grace will be that USB 3.0 is backwards compatible but will it be enough or will we have an entirely new 'standard' for connecting peripherals by the end of 2010?