New High Speed Wireless Chipset from IBM

YesSir writes to tell us IBM scientists are reporting that they have created a new low-cost wireless chipset that could allow devices to communicate up to ten times faster than current technology. From the article: "Using the IBM-pioneered chip-making technology called silicon germanium, the chipset is able to send and receive information in a portion of the radio spectrum that is both unlicensed and can carry a much higher volume of data, a key advantage as data-intensive digital media formats, such as HDTV, become more pervasive."

Comments

The FCC's performance

[Douglas Simmons]

Being a Howard Stern fan, I've been raised as a soldier in the anti-FCC jihad. But washing mouths with soap is only one of many things they do. As this article raises performance and range licensing relationships, how good a job would you say the FCC has done in frequency management?

Re:Ten Times Faster Than Present Technology!!!

[Penguinoflight]

The claims for those speeds in wireless are just plain wrong. If we get lucky IBM will double current performance at reasonable distances.