[XorNot]

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.

[ddalex]

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.