Called WiGig, the technology has been under development since 2009 and aims to replace cables by using a high-bandwidth, high-frequency wireless data system.

"Since inception of the WiGig alliance back in 2009, we always had the vision that we need to develop a very high-throughput wireless technology that is capable of doing things beyond what Wi-Fi can do," said Ali Sadri, president of WiGig Alliance and director of millimeter wave technology at Intel.

Sadri was speaking during a keynote address at Intel's Developer Forum in San Francisco and gave examples of video connections to monitors and TVs, PCI Express and SDIO as some of the interfaces WiGig could replace.

WiGig runs on spectrum in the 60GHz band -- frequencies considerably higher than today's Wi-Fi and suitable for short-range communications but highly susceptible to interference or blocking over longer ranges.

During the demonstration the technology initially failed to work, a problem blamed on the demo laptop going to sleep while it was sitting on stage waiting to be used. (.)