Andrew Smith
September 16th, 2011, 06:59 AM
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Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect technology, which shuffles data between PCs and devices like displays and external storage, could be years away from getting optical technology, an Intel executive said this week.
Thunderbolt, originally introduced in February on Apple's Macintosh computers, was pitched as being optical technology but currently uses copper wires. Fiber optics are expensive to implement, and copper wires are working much better than expected, said Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group, in an interview at the Intel Developer Forum being held in San Francisco.
More at: Intel's Thunderbolt with fiber optics years away - Computerworld (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220029/Intel_s_Thunderbolt_with_fiber_optics_years_away)
Andrew
Intel's Thunderbolt high-speed interconnect technology, which shuffles data between PCs and devices like displays and external storage, could be years away from getting optical technology, an Intel executive said this week.
Thunderbolt, originally introduced in February on Apple's Macintosh computers, was pitched as being optical technology but currently uses copper wires. Fiber optics are expensive to implement, and copper wires are working much better than expected, said Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group, in an interview at the Intel Developer Forum being held in San Francisco.
More at: Intel's Thunderbolt with fiber optics years away - Computerworld (http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220029/Intel_s_Thunderbolt_with_fiber_optics_years_away)
Andrew