"GiFi" — Short-Range, 5-Gbps Wireless For $10/Chip

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 22, 2008 @02:42AM from the can-you-say-giga dept.

mickq writes "The Age reports that Melbourne scientists have built and demonstrated tiny CMOS chips, 5 mm per side, that can transmit 5 Gbps over short distances — about 10 m. The chip features a tiny 1-mm antenna, a power amp that is only a few microns wide, and power consumption of only 2 W. 'GiFi' appears set to revolutionize short-distance data transmission, and transmits in the relatively uncrowded 60GHz range. Best of all, the chip is only about a year away from public release, and will only cost around US $9.20 to produce."

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Re:Bluetooth replacement? by TripMaster+Monkey · 2008-02-22 02:52 · Score: 4, Informative

I believe BlueTooth's max transmission rate is 2.1 Mb/sec (for BlueTooth 2.0). 5 Gb/sec > 2.1 Mb/sec.

USB 1.1 adapters are pretty cheap, too...how much are they being used today?

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