{"id":229644,"date":"2026-01-23T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/engineers-invent-wireless-transceiver-that-rivals-fiber-optic-speed"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:28:27","slug":"engineers-invent-wireless-transceiver-that-rivals-fiber-optic-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/engineers-invent-wireless-transceiver-that-rivals-fiber-optic-speed","title":{"rendered":"Engineers invent wireless transceiver that rivals fiber-optic speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-invent-wireless-transceiver-that-rivals-fiber-optic-speed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new transceiver invented by electrical engineers at the University of California, Irvine boosts radio frequencies into 140-gigahertz territory, unlocking data speeds that rival those of physical fiber-optic cables and laying the groundwork for a transition to 6G and FutureG data transmission protocols.<\/p>\n<p>To create the transceiver, researchers in UC Irvine\u2019s Samueli School of Engineering devised a unique architecture that blends digital and analog processing. The result is a silicon chip system, comprising both a transmitter and a receiver, that\u2019s capable of processing digital signals significantly faster and with much greater energy efficiency than previously available technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The team from UC Irvine\u2019s Nanoscale Communication Integrated Circuits Labs outline its work in two papers published this month in the <i>IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits<\/i>. In one, the engineers discuss the technology they call a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/10833751\" target=\"_blank\">bits-to-antenna<\/a>\u201d transmitter, and in the second, they cover their \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ieeexplore.ieee.org\/document\/11344822\" target=\"_blank\">antenna-to-bits<\/a>\u201d receiver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new transceiver invented by electrical engineers at the University of California, Irvine boosts radio frequencies into 140-gigahertz territory, unlocking data speeds that rival those of physical fiber-optic cables and laying the groundwork for a transition to 6G and FutureG data transmission protocols. To create the transceiver, researchers in UC Irvine\u2019s Samueli School of Engineering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229644","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}