Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Intel Light Peak launch likely tomorrow

Intel's Light Peak finally seems poised for launch. It's been over three years now since Intel first announced Light Peak, but the recession and various other factors have till now delayed Light Peak's launch. The wait, in all likelihood, will end soon -- tomorrow by all indications.


So what's all the fuss about Intel's Light Peak? Well, Light Peak is a new Intel technology for connecting devices via optical cables instead of electrical cables.

Light Peak is also hailed as a single universal interface that replaces SCSI, SATA, USB, FireWire, and PCI Express. One single port to connect for any device, be it camera, phone, Blu-ray player, monitor, hard drive, or more. Sounds like a compelling thought, no doubt.

At last year's Developer Forum or IDF, Intel showed off a laptop demoing Light Peak's capabilities. Light Peak will enable data transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps -- SATA 3.0 allows 6Gbps, USB 3.0 allows 4.8 Gbps, for example. By 2020, Light Peak can scale up to 100Gbps, according to Intel.

Light Peak was initially conceived to work over optical fibers, but to bring it to market soon, Intel has decided to adopt copper as current way of transferring data, which is a disappointment.

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