Is Apple behind Intels speedy optical link?
The high-speed Light Peak optical interconnect that Intel unveiled at last week’s developer confab was developed as a result of a CEO-to-CEO interconnect between Apple’s Steve Jobs and Intel’s Paul Otellini. That is, if Engadget’s “extremely reliable source” is correct. According to that website’s report, the idea for Light Peak originated at Apple back in 2007 and was developed by Intel at Cupertino’s urging. This, of course, wouldn’t be a unique event. Other now-widespread technologies have been conceived at One Infinite Loop then gone on to become industry standards. Think FireWire and OpenCL, for example, and the now-open source Grand Central Dispatch multicore-code helper. The Reg believes that Engadget’s mole knows what he’s talking about, considering that Light Peak’s coming-out party was hosted on a lucite-encased collection of boards running Mac OS X 10.6, better known as Snow Leopard – check out this video: Light Peak also fits in well with Steve Jobs’s mantra of “simplify, s
