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They made lightpeak their keynote highlight at CES 2010. This means Intel is damn near ready to deploy this spec. It is rare, if ever, that they keynote things that aren't about to come to fruition.
There are many hurdles to lightpeaks' successful deployment, but this is intel we are speaking of, do not underestimate them, the force is strong with them
you have to wonder why they are dragging their feet on certain things, and i believe this is the answer, now that is speculation, of course, but one that many agree upon. the first release of light peak will be a lower spec, then they will ramp up quickly after the honeymoon is over and they (WE) cover their R&D expenditures, then it is off to the races.
they do not intend for it to be a 'threat' to SAS/SATA 6gb/s yet, they will use it for smaller things, usb 3.0 at first. it is rumored to be on the brink of deployment, but first as an additional spec, but later the lock down will come, with the intentions of replacing sas/sata 12gb/s.
Intel 101. textbook. they are very efficient! they are doing this to lock their control of the interfaces down more than anything. they are working feverishly to eliminate other things on the mobo and bring them on-die...North Bridge, South Bridge, PCI-E controller, memory controller, GPU for the love of christ, etc etc...
now all they need that they have control of all these things on-die and in proprietary control is a means to connect them to other devices, that they control as well.....
Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce, Light Peak!
it is designed to be uber cheap
the coup de grace?
http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm
There are many hurdles to lightpeaks' successful deployment, but this is intel we are speaking of, do not underestimate them, the force is strong with them
you have to wonder why they are dragging their feet on certain things, and i believe this is the answer, now that is speculation, of course, but one that many agree upon. the first release of light peak will be a lower spec, then they will ramp up quickly after the honeymoon is over and they (WE) cover their R&D expenditures, then it is off to the races.
they do not intend for it to be a 'threat' to SAS/SATA 6gb/s yet, they will use it for smaller things, usb 3.0 at first. it is rumored to be on the brink of deployment, but first as an additional spec, but later the lock down will come, with the intentions of replacing sas/sata 12gb/s.
Intel 101. textbook. they are very efficient! they are doing this to lock their control of the interfaces down more than anything. they are working feverishly to eliminate other things on the mobo and bring them on-die...North Bridge, South Bridge, PCI-E controller, memory controller, GPU for the love of christ, etc etc...
now all they need that they have control of all these things on-die and in proprietary control is a means to connect them to other devices, that they control as well.....
Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce, Light Peak!
it is designed to be uber cheap
the coup de grace?
http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm
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