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Intel says its Light Peak optical cables may succeed USB

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Interesting detail FTA:
"Still, USB 3.0 is not yet widespread in devices. That is partly because many PC manufacturers will wait on USB 3.0 until support is built directly into the chipsets they buy, which is only expected to happen late next year, according to a research note from In-Stat."

This puts mainstream acceptance of USB3 off until late 2011/early 2012.

Anyone here hoping for USB3 in an Apple device anytime soon -- forget about it.

What's really interesting about Light Peak is that it can handle all different types of data, which conceivably means its very backward-compatible with all kinds of "old" connectors -- Firewire, USB, eSATA, DVI and more. Very exciting if Intel can really bring it to market. I would love to see Apple jump on this, and I have a hunch they will (not anytime soon, though).
 
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chas_m said:
Interesting detail FTA:
"Still, USB 3.0 is not yet widespread in devices. That is partly because many PC manufacturers will wait on USB 3.0 until support is built directly into the chipsets they buy, which is only expected to happen late next year, according to a research note from In-Stat."

This puts mainstream acceptance of USB3 off until late 2011/early 2012.

Anyone here hoping for USB3 in an Apple device anytime soon -- forget about it.

What's really interesting about Light Peak is that it can handle all different types of data, which conceivably means its very backward-compatible with all kinds of "old" connectors -- Firewire, USB, eSATA, DVI and more. Very exciting if Intel can really bring it to market. I would love to see Apple jump on this, and I have a hunch they will (not anytime soon, though).
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This article talks about the cable type, not the port, right?
 
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I may be totally wrong, but wouldn't a cable such as that enable you to connect multiple devices at once if you wanted? It could actually legitimize the economical single port in a Macbook Air or some descendant of it.
 
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That IS very interesting. However, as I'm not clever enough to conceive of it, I asked myself a question about something, which someone else whom commented there, already beat me to it:

Nice tech, but how do we power external devices? Before we go to optical connections we need to kill wall warts. The last thing I want is two cables attached to my gadgets.
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Right, so... where will devices draw their power from ? It would be incredibly redundant if it required plugging our devices into something else for power.

Doug
 
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I've been interested in seeing how Light Peak technology would progress ever since I heard about it awhile back. It has some great potential. I am curious if it will power other devices like USB does but it's not a big issue for me since most of my USB devices already need a separate power cord so I'm used to it.
 

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