Intel announced that their latest work Light Peak Interconnect is very much ready for implementation into consumer devices, but there’s another bummer here: the technology is using good ol’ copper. Funnily everyone is expecting this new tech to be very awesome and using some sort of alien-like new material or fiber optic the least. Intel’s David Perlmutter says transmissions over copper turned out “surprisingly better” than expected and that it’ll prove plentiful for the majority of user needs today.

Intel’s Light Peak might not be that exciting if you compare it to like dual-core smartphones and tablets, but I do think that it’s a great start. Intel obviously started USB and thanks to them USB 2.0 went massive. However, everyone was condemning the company for ditching USB 3.0 implementation into the P67 and Sandy Bridge platform and opt for Light Peak. Well, if you compare Intel’s 10Gbps speed for Light Peak to 4Gbps of USB 3.0, sudden we see the reason why Intel ditches the USB 3.0 implementation.

Also, copper is used instead of fiber as they’re more flexible and more affordable compared to fiber. Fiber is good for long distance communication from house to exchanges to states to countries to continents where you need them under the sea and not afraid of lightnings. But Light Peak will be something that you carry around with, where you’ll be bending them a lot and carrying them around. Copper has proven to be much cheaper than fiber and flexible too. That’s why Intel chooses copper, for very obvious reasons.

The chipzilla has stated that Light Peak will be coming very soon, as soon as the end of this year.