Is Light Peak the future of high speed data transfers?
Welcome to the brave new world of Light Peak, a technology based on beaming infared light through optical fibre cables for 10GBits/sec and your broadband could be next.
It's exciting to see two major interface updates in one month. But USB 3 and SATA/600 are designed to fulfil similar roles, and you'd be forgiven for wondering whether it's efficient for the industry to maintain both interface standards. You wouldn't be the only one.
At the 2009 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel demonstrated its vision of a single universal data interface - one standard capable of hooking up anything from keyboards and mice to printers, monitors, storage devices and even network switches.
