{"id":9772,"date":"2009-09-28T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-28T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T10:05:00","slug":"apple-and-intel-develop-10-gbps-optical-data-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/9772-apple-and-intel-develop-10-gbps-optical-data-technology.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Intel develop 10 Gbps optical data technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Intel Developer Forum held last week, a hot topic was Intel&rsquo;s unveiling of the Light Speed optical cable technology. The thin optical cable can transfer data at speeds of 10Gb\/s, and Intel claims it will deliver speeds of 100Gb\/s within 10 years. The data can be transferred over a cable of up to 100 meters in length.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the technology unveiling, those attending the event couldn&rsquo;t help but notice that Intel was demonstrating the product on a &ldquo;hackintosh&rdquo; &ndash; an unbranded PC running a patched Mac OS.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/09\/26\/exclusive-apple-dictated-light-peak-creation-to-intel-could-be\/\">Engadget<\/a> it emerged over the weekend that there was an explanation for this. Apple had approached Intel back in 2007 to create a single interoperable standard which would &ldquo;replace the multitudinous connector types with a single connector (FireWire, USB, Display interface).&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Apple plans to introduce Light Peak as a new standard for its systems around the American fall of 2010 (South African spring). There are plans to follow up with a low-power variation in 2011, aimed at handhelds and cell phones. A single universal port would be extremely useful in small devices, such as the anticipated Mac tablet PC.<\/p>\n<p>If the timing for the introduction of Light Peak holds true, it would be in direct competition with USB 3.0. The ability to offer a superior 10Gb\/s over USB 3.0, which operates at 3.2Gb\/s, raises the question as to whether Apple will simply skip USB 3.0 in favour of Light Peak.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=194319\"><strong>Apple-Intel optical data tech<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple\u2019s intends to offer an interoperable connectivity standard, that handles all major input\/output on a single port<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}