Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, Oct 6, 2009 – FOCI Fiber Optic Communication Inc. today announced its collaboration with Intel to produce Light Peak Technology components. The technology demonstration is the world’s first application of optical fiber in personal computers and took place at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco, California from September 22-24, 2009. The demonstration showcased streaming video from a PC to commercially available external peripherals at speeds previously unattainable with current consumer electronics connector technology.

“FOCI is honored to be working with Intel in this show of the first Light Peak Technology in a real world application of data backup, storage and media streaming,” said Thomas Liu, Chief Operating Officer of FOCI. “Intel’s reaction to our new connectors and cables for Light Peak platform has been extremely positive and we will continue to focus on delivering leading-edge products that will allow them to address the growing demand for high-speed cables that are able to run multiple protocols simultaneously over a single cable.”

“We already mass produce fiber optic components to bring fiber to the home, now is time for us to move on to mass produce Light Peak components to bring fiber to the desk” said Thomas.

“Intel is pleased to be working with FOCI to make Light Peak optical components ready to ship in 2010”, said Jason Ziller, Director, Optical I/O Program Office, Intel Corp.　ctor, Optical I/O Program Office, Intel Corp.“Light Peak has high bandwidth and the ability to run multiple I/O protocols over a single cable, enabling the technology to connect to many devices such as displays, disk drives, peripherals, and docking stations.”

Light Peak is a new high-speed optical cable technology designed to connect your electronic devices to each other. Light Peak delivers high bandwidth starting at 10Gb/s with the potential ability to scale to 100Gb/s over the next decade. At 10Gb/s, you could transfer a full-length Blu-Ray movie in less than 30 seconds. Optical technology also allows for smaller connectors and longer, thinner, and more flexible cables than currently possible. Light Peak also has the ability to run multiple protocols simultaneously over a single cable, enabling the technology to connect devices such as peripherals, workstations, displays, disk drives, docking stations, and more. Light Peak brings this optical technology to mainstream computing and consumer electronic devices in a cost-effective manner.

Intel is planning to supply the controller chip, and is working with other component manufacturers, such as FOCI, to deliver all the Light Peak components. We expect that the components will be ready to ship in 2010. Over time, the optical components, designed to be small, easy to manufacture and affordable, are expected to enjoy the economies of scale that other components have in the computing and consumer electronics industries.

Intel will work with the industry to determine the best way to make this new technology a standard to accelerate its adoption on a plethora of devices including PCs, handheld devices, workstations, consumer electronic devices and more. Light Peak is complementary to existing I/O technologies, as it enables them to run together on a single cable at higher speeds. The Light Peak initiative builds on Intel’s commitment in working with the industry on existing I/O standards, and provides a path to continued progress into the future.

FOCI was established in 1995 by a core team from the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). FOCI designs, manufactures and sells a broad range of high performance fiber optic components and integrated modules that increase the bandwidth and flexibility of today’s fiber to the home(FTTH) networks. Over the years, FOCI not only actively involving in new technology development but also demonstrating it’s capability to bring new technology to mass production at right price. FOCI has team up with Corning to demonstrate the first-ever full-spectrum coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) transmission at OFC 2002, March 19-22, in Anaheim, California. FOCI has also mass produce key optical components to make LuminentOIC the first company to bring triplexer transceivers to mass production and surpasses half million milestone for shipments of its ONT Triplexer Transceiver on March 1, 2006. After proving that the Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) components could be built reliably and with the volumes necessary for residential consumer application, FOCI was certified as PLC supplier to China Telecom for its Fiber to The Home program in August 2009.

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Josephine Huang
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