Alphabet’s Taara chip uses light beams to provide high-speed internet

Taara is a successor to Alphabet’s Project Loon internet broadcasting balloons. Alphabet Alphabet has announced a new development for Taara’s technology that could lead to low-cost, high-speed internet connectivity, even in far-flung locations. Taara’s general manager, Mahesh Krishnaswamy, has introduced the Taara chip, a silicon photonic chip that uses light to transmit high-speed data through the air. The Taara chip is abut the size of a fingernail, far smaller than the technology the Alphabet division has been using. Taara Lightbridge, which is what its first-generation technology is called, is the size of a traffic light and uses a system […]

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