Hmm..have not had a technology related post since some time. Won’t be bad If i write one now 
If the title of the post has had you stumped, let me tell you it is meant to be that way. The title is the name of a recently being developed technology at Intel.As I hear it, its actually its code name.
Light Peak is a technology that enables memory transfers using an optical cable, that can give transfer speeds of close to 10GBps. By memory transfers it means you can connect any electronic device (say an ipod)and get those kind of speeds.
This technology is supposed to be the next big thing and is expected to surpass USB 3.0. Fingers crossed on that.
The other most exciting thing about the technology is it is supposedly able to merge a lot of existing protocols together and come out with a common protocol for all the communication on any device. Thats interesting.
This technology is currently being developed and some more information can be found on their official site at:
http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/None/1813.htm
Btw, there is also some speculation that Apple is going to ship its newer macbooks with this technology somewhere late this year.
Take a look at some other links too:
http://ctovision.com/2010/03/more-on-light-peak-very-high-data-rate-from-the-grid-to-your-computer/
I hope all this succeeds
cheers
X
Sandy
Well then only processing time will decide speed of data transfer,
i am a bit skeptical about overall improvement but i think protocol thing would be cool
@sandy
Well Intel demonstrated it on a macbook early this year and it worked fine.
I think the processor speed won’t matter much here since the I/O controller will probably take care of that.
The protocol thing is btw really new and cool.