Multiple standards through a single cable is a huge win. Devices that require multiple wires to/from the same units are probably going to see enormous benefits from this technology once it becomes widespread.
But HDMI won't be able to connect anything but TVs and players. Light Peak is intended to serve as a replacement for anything someone decides to implement it with... Hard drives, DVD players, TVs, receivers, cameras, webcams, docks... Anything that requires data of any kind can use Light Peak if a manufacturer decides to use it.
Woa, me likey. Who says intel is good for nothing. I remember when USB and Firewire came out. Firewire was superior but there was less royalties with USB. Stingy apple. I hope this will be cheap to implement.
I doubt that Intel is pursuing Light Peak in favor of USB 3.0. There's no financial incentive for the firm to do so given that there is absolutely zero ecosystem for the connector. The more likely answer is that they're simply waiting for their next round of chipsets, which won't appear until the company intros its new architecture in 2011. In other words, they're just riding P55 and X58 out.
Lightpeak is taking some of the WAN optical concepts and putting it into a small space. I actually am really keen on the idea as long as it stays in the corrrect space within a platform. We don't need another SFP iteration please Intel.
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But HDMI won't be able to connect anything but TVs and players. Light Peak is intended to serve as a replacement for anything someone decides to implement it with... Hard drives, DVD players, TVs, receivers, cameras, webcams, docks... Anything that requires data of any kind can use Light Peak if a manufacturer decides to use it.
If Intel can license and manufacture Light Peak at a low enough cost, Lightpeak will dominate the market just like USB2 has.
Seems like Lightpeak is Apple's requested solution to firewire, SATA, USB and more