They could deliver more than twice the speed, cost three times as much, and break twice as easily!
Truly an (((Apple))) innovation!
Intel's original name for lightning bolt was 'light peak' and it was _originally_ a fiber optic + copper for power in 2009. It was apple who joined the development a few years later and decided that it would be too expensive, and used copper only, then took over development. so fuck apple, what is old is new again I guess.
Very interesting, did not know that. What could have been...
Apple decided something was too expensive? Hard to believe.
They still charge more for it.
Optical would have been stupid, even back then it was used to route electrical signals for other consumer standards like DisplayPort, bandwidth is limited by device capabilities, not cables.
Doesn't matter, the deciding factor on how much bandwidth you can get out of something is the number of PCIe lanes dedicated to connectivity, there's a reason why only Thunderbolt 4 requires the full 40 Gb/s for certification, the cables aren't the bottleneck.
the cables aren't the bottleneck.
Currently.
This already exists at 1gig, 10gig, 40gig, and 100gig speeds. They just want to do it again but make it proprietary
So what? Apple could make all of their cables fibre optic but you still wouldn't be able to drag and drop into their shit software.
The article was from AI, but the information is generic. It's not apple specific.
Just another excuse to change the connectors in order to make us buy new cables and charges again..
This will never take off unless they can somehow jam optical into the USB-C cables and connectors, or they will come up with a frankenstein standard like the USB 3.0 Micro-B.
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