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Monday, April 26, 2010

Intel Light Peak Technology


Are you looking for something that is much faster than USB 2.0 but do not have the patients for USB 3.0 to come out. Well it will be here before you know it and it is called Intel Light Peak. “Light Peak is the code-name for a new high-speed optical cable technology designed to connect your electronic devices to each other. Light Peak delivers high bandwidth starting at 10Gb/s with the potential ability to scale to 100Gb/s over the next decade”.

Light Peak is optical and with optical technology the speed is extremely fast. The other advantage is that it overcomes distance limitations that electrical cables tend to have.

Light Peak is suppose to ship to retailers later this year. We shall see if retailers and manufactures will embrace this new technology. Time will tell.