Pingie: HTTP:: Intel Wants to Replace Copper Wires with Optical Cables

HTTP:: Intel Wants to Replace Copper Wires with Optical Cables
--------
Most of the computers connected to the Internet today still use standard copper cables for transmitting information, which is carried aboard electrons. The core of the World Wide Web is, however, made up of fiber optic cables, which rely on data being sent via photons. The latter particles are far more “qualified” for the task than electrons are, but, at this point, the technology is still fairly expensive, and cannot be implemented at a wider scale. Intel, the largest chip manufacturer in the world, has recently announced that it plans to develop a new type of cable, called Light Peak, which will combine the efficiency of fiber optics with the low price of a standard cable, Technology Review reports. The Vice President of Intel's mobility group, Dadi Perlmutter, announced this Wednesday at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), held in San Francisco, California, that plans were to introduce the new cable by 2010. According to the official, the new tool will be able to tr!
ansfer as much as ten gigabits of information from one device to another, such as, for instance, from a laptop to an external hard drive. The optical cable will additionally be fairly inexpensive, thin, and hopefully a good alternative to the multiple copper wires that are in use today. At the conference, ...
--------
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Intel-Wants-to-Replace-Copper-Wires-with-Optical-Cables-122506.shtml
--------
This e-mail was sent by Experiment23 Inc., located in New York, NY
10163. To not receive further e-mails, please visit
http://help.pingie.com