Digital Home Thoughts: Intel Demonstrates Laptop With Light Peak Technology

"Intel has provided the first hands-on demonstration of a laptop running its Light Peak technology, at the company's inaugural European research showcase here in Brussels. Light Peak is an optical interconnect that can transfer data at 10Gbits/sec in both directions. Intel hopes Light Peak will one day replace the host of other PC interconnects, including USB, DisplayPort and HDMI."

Faster is usually regarded as better: but is the world ready for another wired connectivity standard? Intel is planning to ship Light Peak components sometime in 2010, but there does not seem to be a rush of product announcements - although the Intel "Light Peak Technology" web page does provide a quote that "Sony is excited about the potential....!" Personally, I am not too excited at the thought of having to (literally....) buy into yet another interface standard. Somewhere around here I still have a couple of USB to Parallel Port adapters that were necessitated by the removal of Parallel Ports from notebook computers: wonder what the cost of a Light Peak to USB adapter will be?