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Light Peak coming in months, Apple on board?

According to CNET, Lightpeek 10Gb Tx/Rx bus technology is on the way for a 2011 debut, likely in Apple’s Macintosh computeres.

But Apple is expected to back Light Peak, if past comments from Intel still hold. Shortly after its annual developer conference in 2009, Intel said that it had showed the technology to third parties, got feedback, then incorporated the feedback into the next design, adding, at that time, that “Apple is an innovating force in the industry.

Steve Jobs recently panned USB3 in an email saying that Intel didn’t directly support it in their chips.  Intel will natively support Light Peak.  Below is a video on Light Peak:

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