Alphabet packs its light-based Taara internet tech into a chip.
In a new Project Taara blog post, Alphabet says it transmitted data at 10Gbps from one Taara chip to another, using only light beamed from the chip’s “hundreds” of software-controlled light emitters — an improvement on the mechanical beam-directing technique used by its traffic light-sized Taara Lightbridge.
Derived from Alphabet’s failed balloon-based internet project, Project Taara could enable “10, if not 100 times more bandwidth” than a typical Starlink antenna, Taara lead Mahesh Krishnaswamy tells Wired.