Rumor: Intel Light Peak coming in first half of 2011

Intel Light Peak, a high-speed connection standard capable of transferring data at 10 gigabits per second, may be arriving sooner than expected. Light Peak is "now on track to appear in products in the first half of 2011—and likely earlier in the year than later," according to an industry source quoted by CNET.

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Im tellin you, Intel is pulling a pro power move. Delay USB 3.0 mass adoption so that they can get light peak to market before. I think this has a big chance of succeding, unlike firewire.

USB3 has yet to really catch on (in terms of the number of products designed for usb3), and being intel, lightpeak will be on every mobo/laptop/HTPC/whatever once they release it, something only intel could do.

I would love to replace all my SATA/monitor/whatever wires with just lightpeak wires. It would be nice.

That is awsome news

Hope we get many intefaces compatiblity. I see lots of use at my compagnie as we have alot of big backup to extenal drive that take WAY TOO LONG. This would be a perfect solution to transfer 200+gb quick

I'm concerned if it can power a device or not.

superP, Intel said they were going to use a copper wire (I assume around the fiber) for power

I can't wait for Light Peak. I'm actually surprised how many IT people I know that don't know what Light Peak is. It's going to be insane, I'm just afraid the hardware is going to be rediculously priced. I haven't heard whether this was targetted at high end equipment or for the common consumer.

Just in time, before USD 3.0 gets close to mass adoption

I think you mean to say 10 gigabits/second, not gigabytes.

I don't think so, since it uses light pulses and not electrical. So, I believe the light pulse will send the data but the device it self would need to have its own power supply.

Not really, it's 10GB per second. The magic of light

No, its 10Gb/s, not 10GB/s

http://techresearch.intel.com/ProjectDetails.aspx?Id=143
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_Peak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

Yea, I was just going to say that.
If it were actually 10 gigabytes/s, even with overhead that would leave around 4 gigabytes/s. Man, that would be amazing!!!

Yeah, that probably it's the value (10Gb, which, according to wikipedia, it's about 1.250GB/s) per lane. What would be the point of replacing Pci-Express (for example) by this technology if data would not be transfered in a faster way?

Is it possible that another 'format war' is on the brink?

Hey if the devices utilizing Light Peak are priced at or below USB 3.0 devices, then I would be happy to adopt Light Peak, and I'm pretty sure others would do the same as well. Over the next couple of years starting in 2011, Intel should make a lot of money if they introduce Light Peak to as many users as possible and as quickly as possible, before USB 3.0 takes an even greater hold. This will definitely require competitive pricing on the part of light peak device manufacturers.

So it doesn't provide power over the connection, so it can't charge devices or power them. Epic fail.

Something tells me they're probably smart enough to do this.

*Yawn*... 10gb/s? What's the point? Why don't they release it at something decent like 20, 30, 50?
Speed of light my ***.
Summary... it's not that fast (only double USB 3.0 and USB 3.0 has been on boards for how long??), it can't power devices and it is a proprietry Intel standard. Is there incentive for hardware manufacturers to support this platform?
Oh and of course USB3.0 has the advantage that it is backwards compatible with USB2 and earlier so it already has a tonne of devices that it can support.

Also for those who say the speed for external storage is amazing, USB3 covers that fine as well. 4.8gb/s is more than a rotating disk will be pushing out for a little while to come. I just don't see the relevance unless Intel is giving a) some decent bandwidth on what is already available and b) some devices that can make use of this.

This.
But hey, it's a step forward.

i wonder what mcafee has to do with this...

Darth, they said they should be able to hit 100 gb/s in the future with lightpeak