Yes, what would win over...
SPDIF vs. USB or something similar...
Here is my thought.
Because SPDIF is optical it has the potential for unlimited data transfer making idea for any communication medium.
BUT, and this is big but...
You can't get power from an optical cable....
So usb has the ability to remote power devices WITHOUT the need for costly and additional components.
So probably computers will end up with both an optical and a type of USB that has the ability to power devices.
Having the ability to power devices is a very important function.
Probably what will end up happening is a new line will come out with optical AND the two power supply lines.
Then you get the best of both worlds.
Power and the ability to transfer data at ANY speed to pretty much any practical distance.
Although, I have a theory that because the chips have more and more pins.
Like the processors now have hundreds of pins and will have even more in the future.
The PCB boards are saturated.
And the only way around this is either couple the chips (like cpu, ram, etc.) by optical, or more likely, by a very short range wireless signal.
And that will open up a whole new ball game for designers like me
BECAUSE, the chips will all talk to each other and only have the two power supply lines....
All data will be transmitted wirelessly.
And after that they will do away with the power supply lines and make the chips work the same way as those tracking chips in animals work with a resonance circuit that gets activated by electromagnetic fields. (pulses).
THEN you won't need any tracks or wires.
Just place the chips you want on the board. Well you wouldn't really even need a board, you could throw them all in a box together
And they will all talk and communicate with each other.
And at the heart of the system will be this very small power supply that outputs pulses of energy that the chips pick up on ( Probably will do the timing as well, like a clock, crystal )
It will power them up and get the whole thing rolling....
And just before they go completely to wireless.
They will use a kinda USB - Optical hybrid cable
I'll even tell you what it will look like
It will look exactly like a fiber optical cable and will even work with fiber optics because it will be the same size and have a fiber optic core, just like the cables we use now.
The difference will be that it will have two shields.
One will be the voltage, and the other will be the ground ( the outside one will be ground of course
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Remember, you heard it here first!
lol, well I really got ahead of myself there...
I think it's going to be an R&D day!
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