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by ddalex 4482 days ago
If ^this^ is not FUD, I don't know what FUD is. Textbook example.

Seriously, all this post is about is: let's add a layer of confusion and fear on a technological advance. "waste people's time" - haha, nobody forced you to spent time on this. "not being on AMD CPUs, only on Intel Macbooks " - This is a press release about something working in the lab, let's not have anybody announce anything they got in the lab because I can't buy it.

Driving confusion much, are we now ?

1 comments

He's right though.

Unless this is going to result in Intel products which actually have some broad market acceptance, who cares?

Because nobody cares about Thunderbolt. We were promised "fast enough to use external graphics cards" - you know, if you can accept max 4x PCI-e, and are willing to pay as much as a new GPU and computer to drive it for a suitable enclosure.

High speed data over fibre has been in the lab for years, and at these speeds and higher. Implementing it in a lab is easy. Getting it into a product people can use, and expect to use with others, is evidently harder.

Actually, if any would've been bothered to read the article, this is not consumer-grade technology. This is targeted at very special uses inside datacenters.

So we're talking apples and oranges here.