{"id":115459,"date":"2020-11-05T08:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/6g-will-be-100-times-faster-than-5g-and-now-theres-a-chip-for-it"},"modified":"2020-11-05T08:22:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:22:15","slug":"6g-will-be-100-times-faster-than-5g-and-now-theres-a-chip-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/6g-will-be-100-times-faster-than-5g-and-now-theres-a-chip-for-it","title":{"rendered":"6G Will Be 100 Times Faster Than 5G\u2014and Now There\u2019s a Chip for It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For those who are excited about 6G. \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n

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Electromagnetic waves are characterized by a wavelength and a frequency; the wavelength is the distance a cycle of the wave covers (peak to peak or trough to trough, for example), and the frequency is the number of waves that pass a given point in one second. Cellphones use miniature radios to pick up electromagnetic signals and convert those signals into the sights and sounds on your phone.<\/p>\n

4G wireless networks run on millimeter waves on the low- and mid-band spectrum, defined as a frequency of a little less (low-band) and a little more (mid-band) than one gigahertz (or one billion cycles per second). 5G<\/a> kicked that up several notches by adding even higher frequency millimeter waves of up to 300 gigahertz<\/a>, or 300 billion cycles per second. Data transmitted at those higher frequencies tends to be information-dense\u2014like video\u2014because they\u2019re much faster.<\/p>\n

The 6G chip kicks 5G up several more notches. It can transmit waves at more than three times the frequency of 5G: one terahertz, or a trillion cycles per second. The team says this yields a data rate of 11 gigabits per second. While that\u2019s faster than the fastest 5G will get, it\u2019s only the beginning for 6G. One wireless communications expert even estimates 6G networks<\/a> could handle rates up to 8,000 gigabits per second; they\u2019ll also have much lower latency and higher bandwidth than 5G.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those who are excited about 6G. \ud83d\ude03 Electromagnetic waves are characterized by a wavelength and a frequency; the wavelength is the distance a cycle of the wave covers (peak to peak or trough to trough, for example), and the frequency is the number of waves that pass a given point in one second. Cellphones [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}