Cosemi’s new line of active optical cables feature DisplayPort alt mode technology to allow USB-C-enabled computers and mobile devices to connect directly to a display or monitor. These cables ...

The ubiquitous USB 3.0 connector is advancing to light-speed and longer-distance data transfers thanks to optical cables from Corning that started shipping on Tuesday. Corning’s first USB 3 ...

When I hooked up the Corning USB 3.Optical cable speeds were slightly better at an average 108 MB/s write and 101 MB/s read. The increases were slight, and no doubt limited by equipment on hand ...

Corning has unveiled a new high speed data cable that it calls the USB 3.Optical Cables by Corning. These cables are capable of high data transfer speeds over a longer distance than copper cables ...

Corning has begun selling a USB 3.0 optical cable that delivers theoretical peak speeds of 5 gigabits-per-second up to 30 meters. The "USB 3.Optical" cables are thinner (by as much as 50 percent ...

The IC is used to implement active optical cables compliant with both Superspeed USB 3.0 (5 Gbps) and USB 3.1 (10 Gbps) standards. “However implementing 10 Gbps cables using traditional copper wires ...

Corning had two types of optical cable on display: one compatible with the Thunderbolt standard; and another compatible with USB 3.0. Cable lengths for each range from a few meters to a hundred.

The USB 3.0 Optical and Thunderbolt Optical Cables by Corning look like standard USB cables with a couple of fat plugs. The plugs are actually optical engines that convert the digital signal into ...

Optical Thunderbolt 3 cables also only support Thunderbolt 3 connections and can not fall back to USB modes running at slower speeds, so you won't be able to use one of these optical Thunderbolt 3 ...

Intel sees its Light Peak technology for linking devices by optical cable as potentially succeeding USB 3.0, a change that in several years could mean the disappearance of a port used almost ...

VIA officially announced the VIA Labs VO510 5Gb Optical Transceiver, a USB 3.0 Active Optical Cable (AOC) solutions. t can send multimedia, and other bandwidth-intensive content, over distances of ...

USB is currently widely used to link between devices, but Intel's optical technology could reduce the need for other cables Intel sees its Light Peak technology for linking devices by optical ...