More on Intel's LightPeak (c)

USB-3 connectors.

tical interface visible:

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on too.

This would be a been-there done-that project EXCEPT that they integrated the laser diodes on the chip. [You can see a simple eye pattern on the scope.] Still it seems to me they have a forest of patents to get through to bring this to market.

For long distances, this sounds good. But why did FDDI flop, and other than a very high level of integration, why would this succeed for simple interconnections between boards.

FDDI started out as a ring. Ethernet started out as a cable with taps. Both migrated to the current star shape. (box in the phone closet)

Ethernet won the market share.

On a sunny day (Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:02:05 -0800 (PST)) it happened " snipped-for-privacy@sushi.com" wrote in :

Speed, cost.

USB-3 connectors will be in every PC in a few years. Hollywood will like this ,as they use serial protocols at huge speeds to 'encrypt' data between consumer stuff, like HDMI,.. This can carry any protocol, and use one type connecter, and is very hard to 'tap' by the average person to make a copy.

Rumour goes that the idea is from Apple, and they asked Intel to make it, and it will be the connector in the future Apples, maybe a smaller connector... IE it could be Apple is Intel's first and biggest customer for LightPeak.