Intel says Light Peak interconnect technology is ready

[Filliam H. Muffman]

I was going back over CES coverage and only found

one.

single.

mention.

of Light Peak at the biggest consumer show this season. So who is going to buy copper based (expensive) Light Peak, expecting it all to be replaced with faster optical connectors (even more expensive) in the near future? Way to build trust Intel! Or this is just the quiet period before Apple announces new products with Light Peak at MWSF?

[Jimmypoo]

Is this going to be the Apple joint connector for everything?

[jdc]

Jimmypoo wrote:
Is this going to be the Apple joint connector for everything?

God I hope not.

FW had some real merit, but just lost its way? -- and the cost, ugh.

If FWXXXX had been here years ago with eSATA+ speeds, we wouldnt be having this conversation.

[Black]

FYI . . .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Peak

[Zoidberg]

From the Wikipedia article:

"Copper Peak"
In January 2011, Intel announced that the first Light Peak implementations would not be fibre optic but strictly copper based. [1] [2] [3] [4][5][6] No speeds were claimed but commentators judged that performance of Copper Peak would not exceed that of USB3 or SATA 6Gb by enough to justify such a drastic shift in protocol and interface (7).

USB3, eh? And didn't Intel just reveal that Sandy Bridge is a'gettin' USB3 support?

[Jimmypoo]

THAT DOES IT!

I am officially beginning work on what will be known from this point forward as.......



POOPEAK!


Moving electrons peristaltically, it's not the speed that is emphasized, but rather, the size of the files.
Specializing in moving files via "packets" - these packets can reach the size of a shoe box.

[Doc]

Filliam H. Muffman wrote: So who is going to buy copper based (expensive) Light Peak, expecting it all to be replaced with faster optical connectors (even more expensive) in the near future?

Obviously, price is a big factor, however, potential obsolescence 5 years down the line is seldom that big a deal if it can be marketed to average-Joe consumer as a big improvement right now.

And from experience I can attest that if the tech is ubiquitous, the cables and adapters will be available long after it has been superseded.

Heck, I still see PS2 mice and parallel cables in stores occasionally.

[Jimmypoo]

Doc wrote:
Heck, I still see PS2 mice and parallel cables in stores occasionally.

I'm seeing PS2 connectors on the LATEST 2011 motherboards that have both USB2 and USB 3 on the board!
They also have FW and are using the Sandy Feet chipset for Gen 2 of the i3/i5/i7 (socket 1156).

[thermarest]

Jimmypoo wrote:
[quote=Doc]
Heck, I still see PS2 mice and parallel cables in stores occasionally.

I'm seeing PS2 connectors on the LATEST 2011 motherboards that have both USB2 and USB 3 on the board!
They also have FW and are using the Sandy Feet chipset for Gen 2 of the i3/i5/i7 (socket 1156).
I was noticing that the motherboards for Sandy Bridge has PS/2 ports. WTF?

[deckeda]

Jimmypoo wrote:
THAT DOES IT!

I am officially beginning work on what will be known from this point forward as.......



POOPEAK!


Moving electrons peristaltically, it's not the speed that is emphasized, but rather, the size of the files.
Specializing in moving files via "packets" - these packets can reach the size of a shoe box.

Brilliant! All these years of Stuffit and Zip files, squeezing songs down into MP3s, and let's not even talk about what we've had to do with video files. With Poopeak, we'll be gluttonously expanding files, keeping entire Blu-ray rips at 50GB a pop, just to have the advantage that the large pallets, er, packets provide.