{"id":149056,"date":"2022-10-28T20:22:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T01:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-new-laser-powered-chip-can-transmit-the-entire-internet-twice-each-second"},"modified":"2022-10-28T20:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T01:22:42","slug":"a-new-laser-powered-chip-can-transmit-the-entire-internet-twice-each-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-new-laser-powered-chip-can-transmit-the-entire-internet-twice-each-second","title":{"rendered":"A new laser-powered chip can transmit the entire internet (twice) each second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-laser-powered-chip-can-transmit-the-entire-internet-twice-each-second2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, consumer devices can\u2019t run on lasers just yet. But in recent years, researchers have been working hard to make this dream a reality.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent breakthrough, a new chip can bend laser light to transmit 1.8 petabits, or over 1 million gigabits, per second. To put things in perspective, that\u2019s nearly twice the world\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/science\/gravitational-lensing-seti\">internet<\/a> traffic per second.<\/p>\n<p>This breaks the May 2022 record of 1.02 petabits per second, as <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/telecommunications\/1-petabit-per-second-data-transmission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">reported<\/a> by <em>New Atlas<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, consumer devices can\u2019t run on lasers just yet. But in recent years, researchers have been working hard to make this dream a reality. In the most recent breakthrough, a new chip can bend laser light to transmit 1.8 petabits, or over 1 million gigabits, per second. To put things in perspective, that\u2019s nearly twice [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149056","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}