‘Revolutionary’ chipset transmits data 1000 times faster than Bluetooth

The VIRTUS chipset is said to consume little power and is designed to enable mobile devices to transmit data between platforms such as projectors and tvs up to 1000 times faster than Bluetooth. The team from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and A*STAR's Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R) claims the chip can transfer an 8Gbyte dvd in 30s. "This groundbreaking millimetre wave integrated circuit technology will have significant commercial impact, enabling a wide range of new applications such as wireless display, mobile distributed computing, live high definition video streaming, real time interactive multi user gaming and more," said Professor Yeo Kiat Seng, principal investigator of the project and associate chair of research at NTU's school of electrical and electronic engineering. Consisting of three components, the chipset includes an antenna, a full radio frequency transceiver and a baseband processor. Lower power consumption is possible due to non linear signal processing and a digital parallel processing and decoder architecture. Successfully putting together an integrated low power 60GHz chipset solution consisting of these three components is apparently a world first for the team, as is demonstrating it in the form of an hd wireless video stream. The collaboration, which began in December 2009, was funded by A*STAR's technology transfer arm, Exploit Technologies Pte. The VIRTUS chipset has already garnered 16 international patents.