Wireless chip breakthrough for eventual 6G speed that is 100 times faster than 5G!
MAJULAH, Singapore (PNN) - August 13, 2020 - Singapore researchers have a tetrahertz (THz) wave chip that can transmit at a data rate of 11 Gigabits per second (Gbit/s). It is capable of supporting real-time streaming of 4K high-definition video and passes the theoretical limit of 10 Gbit/s for 5G wireless communications.
The small silicon chip has rows of triangular holes; the small triangles pointing in the opposite direction to larger triangles, light waves become “topologically protected”.
This all-silicon chip demonstrated it could transmit signals error-free while routing THz waves around 10 sharp corners at a rate of 11 Gbits/s. It gets around any material defects that may have been introduced in the silicon manufacturing process.
This technology could be the basis for next generation - 6G - communications with terabytes-per-second speed (10 to 100 times faster than 5G) in the future.
THz interconnect technology will be used in data centers, IOT devices, massive multicore CPUs (computing chips), and long-range communications, including telecommunications and wireless communication such as Wi-Fi.
