Wi-Fi chip speed of 630 Mb / sec

IBM said it is developing a product model capable of exchanging data 10 times faster than today's standard wireless networking chip (54 Mbps).

Brian Gaucher, an expert at IBM's Yorktown Heights (New York, USA) research lab, said in the lab environment, the chip could transmit information at 630 Mbps and would be raised. 1 GB or 5 GB / second in a few years.

This is a hybrid chip that uses both silicon and germanium but can still be produced on a conventional line. It operates at 60 GHz, much faster than the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz speeds according to existing technology.

IBM's chip currently only operates within a distance of about 10 meters, capable of replacing the digital video cable for the TV in the living room. Next time, the company will expand the scope to 100 meters like the current Wi-Fi chip.

The IBM team will present the product at ISSCC Solid State Circuit Exhibition, where hundreds of engineers from semiconductor companies worldwide gather this week in San Francisco (USA) and will launch marketed in 2007.