Posted on Monday, September 28 2009 @ 17:50 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Engadget
reports Apple is the main force behind the creation of
Light Peak, a new optical standard that promises transfer speeds of up to 10Gbps. The site also uncovered some details about the role Light Peak will play in Apple's future products.
Well it turns out there's more to that story than you probably know, and it all leads back to some revealing facts about the connection... literally and figuratively. Engadget has learned -- thanks to an extremely reliable source -- that not only is Apple complicit in the development of Light Peak, but the company actually brought the concept to Intel and asked them to create it. More to the point, the new standard will play a hugely important role in upcoming products from Cupertino..
