“SuperSpeed USB 10 Gbps uses a more efficient data
encoding and will deliver more than twice the effective data through-put
performance of existing SuperSpeed USB over enhanced, fully backward compatible
USB connectors and cables”
Excerpt from a
Press Release from the USB 3.0 Standards Promotion Group on Wednesday July 31st
2013
There has been no word yet on the coming of Fiber
Optic Version of the Thunderbolt Cables coming to PC’s as prognosticated in my
blog article
entitled “Fiber
Optic Thunderbolt Cables are coming by the Third Quarter of 2013 – Apple Mac's
to finally get upgraded as Optical Computer now closer to practicality”.
But a lot can change in five (5) months, as we’re just in August of 2013, the
Third Quarter of the 2013 and on the cusp of Summer Holidays ending and School
restarting in Jamaica and the Western World.
Now there’s news that the USB 3.0 Standards
Promotion Group has outed USB 3.1 with speeds of up to 10GBps as stated in “USB
3.1 spec finalized with speeds up to 10 Gbps”,
published August 1, 2013 6:07 AM PDT by Lance Whitney, CNET News.
At 10GBps, it’s a step up from 5GBps for USB 3.0 and
equivalent to the old speed for Copper- based Thunderbolt Cables as pointed out
in “USB
3.1 spec finalized, horns in on Thunderbolt’s turf with 10Gbps speeds”,
published Aug 1 2013, 11:39am SAPST by Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica. However, the Fiber Optic
version of Thunderbolt leaves it in the dust, maxing out at 100GBps Theoretical
speed.
USB 3.1 is however more commercially possible and
may even be cheaper than Optical Thunderbolt Cables. It also has more industry
support, as the Optical Thunderbolt Cables are proprietary tech to Intel and
supported by their chief patron Apple whereas USB is an Open Architecture
Standard that is the product of the USB 3.0 Standards Promotion Group and no
one company and adoptable by all. Expect to see USB 3.1 in Laptops and PC’s by
First Quarter of 2014 with full adoption by the end of that year.
For me this is all exciting!
A lot has indeed happened to push toward my much
vaulted idea of an Optical Computer as predicted long ago in my
blog article
entitled “Intel
and LightPeak - Race towards the Sun”. Already IBM (International Business
Machines) has developed a 25GBps Photonic Processor using the 25nm Process as
described in my blog
article entitled “IBM
develops 25Gbps Photonic Optical Processor at the 90nm level - IBM's Red Dawn
(2012) for Optical Processors”.
More recently, at Apple’s WWDC (Word Wide Developers
Conference) in the week of July 8th 2013, Apple had unveiled its
next generation Apple Mac Pro with an innovative Central Cooling Design and
multiple Optical Thunderbolt Ports as per my blog
article entitled “ATL
is now the Official Distributor of Apple Product in Jamaica as of July 2013 -
Jamaica can now share in the innovation with Apple’s Future Products Despicable
Me 2”.
And there has been AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)
breaking the speed barrier with their FX9000 Series 8-Core 5GHz and 4.7GHz Processors as stated in my Geezam Blog
article entitled “AMD
unveils 5GHz and 4.7Ghz 8-Core Processor at E3 2013 in Apple’s Mac Pro Dogfight
for Top Gun in High End Multi-Core PC Gaming”.
Ditto too the prospect of new 3D Motion Capture
Technology from Leap Motion that’s seems set to become a standard on PC’s and
Laptops trying to make a comeback against Tablets and Smartphones as predicted
in my blog
article entitled “Leap
Motion Controller went live on Monday July 22 2013 - How a Theremin Computer
Device revives PC sales as Everything is Possible to be controlled by Voice and
Motion”.
So it’s settled then. To re-invigorate PC and Laptop
Sales, the following are needed to be standard on a PC or Laptop:
1. 3D
Motion Capture Technology
2. Touch
Screen
3. Voice
Control
4. Faster
Optical Processors
5. Faster
Optical Memory
6. Faster
Optical Motherboard
7. Faster
Connectivity Standards e.g. ThunderBolt or USB 3.1
8. 500GB
or higher SSD (Solid Stare Drives)
9. Lower
Power Consumption or even generate their own Power
10. Sub
US$299 prices, with higher prices reserved for Product bundles
This is the same argument I’d posed in my blog
article entitled “Intel
and the UltraBook - Stephen King's MacBook and iPad Thinner Hex” but with
the slight adjustment of prices. We are now in the Post-PC Era as
prognosticated in my blog
article entitled “How
the Apple iPad killed Ultrabooks, Printing and the Mouse as the World
Rediscovers Tablets” and as such for
non-Mobile Computers to survive, they have to distinguish themselves by being
better at what they do.
After all, Tablets evolved from smartphones but
exchanged their Hardware and Software features such as SSD’s and Instant-On
with the Apple Macbook Air as stated in my Geezam blog article entitled “MacBook Air
and FLASH-based Harddrives - The Quest for Instant On”.
In a similar manner, Hardware, Software and low-cost
Pricing Model of smartphones and Tablets is the way to go if these PC Makers
want to penetrate the Developing World Markets as stated in my blog
article entitled “Analyst
IDC States First Quarter of 2013 Smartphones Shipments finally overtake Feature
Phones - Sub-US$200 Iron Man 3 Smartphones for Developed World Markets”.
These changes plus a lower-price model are certain
to excite the PC Crowd and re-energize the sales of PC’s and Laptops which are
currently in a Freefall for the past Three Quarters as stared in “PCs
suffer longest sales decline in history”,
published 11:50PM BST 10 Jul 2013 by Andrew Trotman, The UK Telegraph
and “The
PC fights back: U.S. sales decline is slowing”,
published Jul 15, 2013 3:00 AM by Brad Chacos, PCWorld.
This gentle people, is how PC and Laptop Sales can
be revived by going Turbo
(2013)!
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