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From: Frank A. Coluccio	9/24/2009 1:00:42 PM
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Intel's Plan to Replace Copper Wires A new kind of optical cable will provide ultrafast connections between electronic devices. By Kate Greene \| MIT Technology Review \| Sep 23, 2009 There's a reason that the Internet backbone is made of fiber-optic cables: photons transport bits of information faster than electrons. But while photons and fiber are the most efficient way of sending data across continents, it's still cheaper and easier to use electrons in copper wiring for most data transfer over shorter distances. Now Intel plans to sell inexpensive cables with fiber-optic-caliber speed to connect, for instance, a laptop and an external hard drive, or a phone and a desktop computer. At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco Wednesday, the company announced a new type of optical cable that it hopes will be fast, cheap, and thin enough to make it an attractive replacement for multiple copper wires. Cont.: technologyreview.com [ fac: Intel's love-hate affair with optical has always reminded me of a line in Godfather III where Michael Corleone laments: "Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in."] ------

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