S'pore invents revolutionary microchip that transfers data at 2GB per second

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Within the next two years, it could take just a second for consumers to transfer 80 MP3 songs wirelessly between mobile devices, or 30 seconds to transfer a two-hour, eight-gigabyte DVD movie, thanks to a new microchip invented by scientists in Singapore.

The revolutionary microchip, named VIRTUS chipset, can transmit large volumes of data at 2GB per second, which is 1,000 times faster than Bluetooth.

This means for the first time, low-power applications such as smartphones and tablets could transmit or receive data from projectors or televisions without using cables.

The chipset has 16 patents internationally and has also been featured in 51 top-tier international journals and conference papers.

It will be showcased at Computex, a technical innovation event in Taiwan next month.