Whats the big breakthrough that makes SiBEAM special?
SiBEAM’s chips can transmit 4 gigabits of data per second through the air, that’s about 20 times faster than anything being done with Wi-Fi today. It’s an unprecedented amount of wireless bandwidth, and for the first time it allows you to send the huge streams of information needed for HDTVs and other devices. The way the company accomplishes this is by operating in the 60 gigahertz (GHz) band (by comparison, most Wi-Fi networks operate at 2.4 or 5 GHz). The higher rate allows us to transmit much more data. While 60 GHz technology isn’t new, the problem to date has been that these systems were very, very expensive due to the exotic materials and technologies needed to build such high-performance circuits. The fundamental breakthrough for SiBEAM was figuring out how to create these 60 GHz circuits using standard silicon CMOS, the same process used to make most of the chips in the world today. Doing that allows us to bring this high-speed, high-performance communications technology down
