Thread: Light Peak

http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm

Wow, Intel demoed a wired protocol called Light Peak recently and it's blistering fast. Its fast enough to transfer and entire blu-ray movie is 30 seconds.

Not sure if it will make it to mainstream PC's because it seems that Apple is behind the curtain pulling the strings. Intel expects to have it in Apple computers sometime in 2010.

USB 2.0 has an average transfer rate of about 350 megabits
Firewire 800 has an average transfer speed of 750 megabits
Light Peak has a demonstrated transfer speed of 10 gigabits, and theoretical capabilities of 100 gigbits.

Whoa. Seriously interested in more info on this!

Holy crap... this is really awesome! Would certainly be a shame if it only appeared in Apples, could really be a selling point for someone like me that prefers to build systems...

Wow.... That's pretty fast.

Interesting, but not that useful at the moment simply because that information can't be written to a hard drive that quick.

And you're very unlikely to have the RAM needed to store a blu-ray disc in memory...

Originally Posted by Photolysis

Interesting, but not that useful at the moment simply because that information can't be written to a hard drive that quick.

And you're very unlikely to have the RAM needed to store a blu-ray disc in memory...

Most things like that don't write to disk anyway, they buffer writing until later. If I recall, Blu Ray discs are only 4GB, most Macs have 4-8GB right now and by 2010 it'll probably be 8-16, plenty of room to store a blu-ray disc.