From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 23/01/2026 02:40, c186282 wrote:   
   > https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-wireless-transceiver-rival   
   -fiber-optic.html   
   >   
   > 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's   
   > 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's capable of processing digital signals   
   > significantly faster and with much greater energy efficiency   
   > than previously available technologies.   
   >   
   > . . .   
   >   
   >    Interesting, the important circuits are analog,   
   >    minimal data conversions, lower power req.   
   >   
   >    Bad thing, I doubt F-band can penetrate even a   
   >    cheapo gypsum-board wall.   
   >   
   Dunno.  Certainly a fairly useless WAN protocol.   
      
   Light in pipes for fixed locations is simply unbeatable   
      
      
   >    Now for boxes in a data center room ... yea,   
   >    this might be very good.   
   >   
   Less secure than optical cables   
      
   >    Where's "sub-space" comms eh ?  :-)   
   >   
   >    'Entanglement' trix might come close ...   
   >   
      
   This seems to be 'we made it because we could, but we cant see any use   
   for it, yet'   
      
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   Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early   
   twenty-first century’s developed world went into hysterical panic over a   
   globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,   
   on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer   
   projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to   
   contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.   
      
   Richard Lindzen   
      
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