Intel’s Light Peak: One PC cable to rule them all
Using just one single type of a fiber optic link to replace the myriad of pc cables protruding from your typical PC, Intel has introduced a technology light peak. The original model has a Light Peak controller and optical connector that sends signals through one white ocular cable.
Perlmutter used an open presentation to display the ingenuity using a PC connected to a monitor on a platform exhibiting a Light Peak optical cable transmitting a high-definition video. At a length of about 100 meters the cable can transmit 10 gigabytes per second simultaneously in two directions and the projection of Intel is to reach a speed of 100 gigabits per second in the next 10 years according to Jason Ziller, the director of optical input-output program.
The dream of the company is to replace the cumbersome pc cables that connect accessories such as monitors, external drives, scanners, and anything else that you can name. Ziller intimated that a PC could sport numerous Light Peak ports for various accessories or a conduit with multiple extensions of its own.
Being in the formative stages it is difficult to estimate the cost implications right now or even how long it will be before the invention becomes widespread. What with wireless communication technology, which Intel itself promoting Ultra Wide band (UWB) as a way of doing away with cables.
Even as a market leader in the world of computers Intel would require a wide range support from other players in developing a new gadget that will send to oblivion DVI, DisplayPort, USB, Firewire, HDMI and many other related gizmos.
