»World’s Most Complex Silicon Phased Array Chip Developed at UC San Diego
~ may create new methods for high speed wireless data transfer
~ in large quantities, this new chip would cost a few dollars to manufacture
~ this is only the transmitter
~ you still need the receiver but one can easily build the receiver chip based on the designs available in the transmitter chip
~ if you take the same design and move it to the 24 or 60 GHz range, you can use it for commercial terrestrial communications
~ funded by Intel/UC-Discovery Grant project to create silicon CMOS phased array chips that could be embedded into laptops and serve as high speed data transfer tools
~ if you wanted to download a large movie file,
~ a base station could find you,
~ zoom onto you, and
~ direct a beam to your receiver chip
~ this could enable data transfer of hundreds of gigabytes of information very quickly,
~ and without connecting a cable or adhering to the alignment requirements of wireless optical data transfer