Engadget has an interesting little extra information on the Light Peak 10Gb bus standard that Intel curiously demonstrated on a Hackintosh this week. Now we know why they used a 'Hackintosh' - it actually wasn't a Hackintosh but a real Apple Blue Motherboard.
It turns out that Apple has developed the standard and was instrumental in bringing it on board over at Intel. Instrumental in this case means Steve Jobs aguing with Intel chief Paul Paul Otellini about getting the product into new motherboards.
10Gbs is fast. It is 10 times faster than Gigabit Ethernet (and is duplex meaning both tx and rx ar 10Gb as the same time). It is also faster than the DisplayPort connector that connects Appel'sdispalys. The video below shows a video card driving an HD monitor as well as a 2 GB file copy all happe
