Posted on Tuesday, September 14 2010 @ 20:05 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Engadget
reports several companies are showing off Light Peak solutions at the IDF in San Francisco, and that the latest version of the technology is a lot more compact than what Intel showed off in May.
Compal's got a laptop with the optical interconnect built in, while Western Digital showed an external hard drive, from which the Compal could pull and edit multimedia in real-time using a Light Peak-enabled Avid rackmount. Meanwhile, LaCie showed off what appeared to be a 4big Quadra RAID array with two Light Peak ports catapulting high-definition video content at 770MB/s to a nearby Samsung TV, though we should warn you that the TV itself was a bit of a hack job, and not a collaboration with Samsung -- note the big, honking EVGA video card sticking out of the back.
