IBM’s Research and development unveils a new chip set to enable wireless networking ten times faster than standard WiFi chips. This chip which is a hybrid of silicon and germanium can be made in any standard small home based factory. The team of researchers from IBM will present a paper in this regard at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. The event will bring in hundreds of hundreds of engineers from who’s who semi conductor companies.
If IBM goes on to the market with the chip, Brian Gaucher (IBM’s research lab, Yorktown Heights, N.Y) says it has the ability “to transfer data such as high definition movies from one part of home to another.”
In the lab, Gaucher said IBM’s prototype chip could transfer data at 630 megabits a second and could improve in a few years to anywhere from 1 gigabit a second to 5 gigabits a second
Via [mercurynews]
