Google’s Taara chip delivers high-speed internet from light bridge (traffic light sized) to light bridge, with light instead of radio waves

https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-google-taara-chip-internet-by-light/

"10 to 100X more bandwidth than Starlink, at fraction of cost... boxes see each other at 20 GBps, equivalent of fiber-optic cable, compensate for potential line-of-sight interruptions, have complicated gimbals, mirrors, lenses to zero in on the right spot to establish/ hold connection... now in commercial operation... future: shrink light bridge to fingernail size, replacing mechanical gimbals/ costly mirrors with single laser solid-state transmitter pairing with multiple receptors... light might be key element in 7G"

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