On March 4, it was reported that Google's "Moonshot Factory" laboratory recently released the Taara high-speed lightweight Internet chip. This chip based on silicon photonic technology can use light to transmit high-speed data in the air, bringing a revolutionary breakthrough in the field of wireless communications.
In outdoor tests, the Taara team successfully used two Taara chips to achieve a data transmission rate of 10Gbps per second at a distance of 1 kilometer. The team said that this is the first time that silicon photonic chips have achieved such a large capacity of outdoor data transmission at such a long distance, marking a new era in wireless communication technology.
Taara team's first-generation technology Taara Lightbridge physically guides light through a system consisting of mirrors, sensors and hardware.
However, Taara chips use software to guide, track and correct light beams, and do not require large and bulky moving parts.
Taara General Manager Krishnaswamy claimed that the Taara team will be able to provide end users with 10 times or even 100 times more bandwidth than Starlink antennas, and the cost is only a fraction of Starlink.