By next year Honeywell will develop a one-megabit MRAM chip specially made for military satellites.
The current industry standard, the 16-megabit DRAM, can store the text of 62.5 pages of a broadsheet.
He uses 200 megabit-per-second Internet backbone lines to carry his signals to hubs in Long Island, N.
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Nearly free, call-and-install, 1.5-megabit-per-second bandwidth to home offices and handhelds would be radical.
But he has encouraged it, adding a zippy 50 megabit WiFi network and encouraging people to camp out with their laptops.
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Toshiba, IBM and Germany's Siemens have already completed a prototype of a 256-megabit DRAM, which is expected to be manufactured in 2000.
The facility will later produce the next-generation 64-megabit DRAM, which is estimated to surpass the production of the current 16-megabit version by 1998.
Yipes, which is a retail outfit, also lets users adjust their bandwidth between 1 megabit and 100 megabits by calling a network center.
Its message (and now Lieberman's): To make America proud--and to revive the sickly tech sector--we must have a 100-megabit connection to every home.
Boeing figures it delivers 20 megabits a second from the ground to the aircraft, and one megabit a second back to the ground.
The company is speeding up production of 64-megabit DRAMs, which are in great demand for computers hungry for memory to run graphics-intensive software.
At that rate, in four years many homes will have access to reliable 2-megabit-per-second service, the magic number at which real video-on-demand can work.
Because the data are written and read in megabit chunks, holo-drives can transfer data at 20 megabytes per second, far faster than optical drives.
By next year Honeywell (nyse: HON - news - people ) will develop a one-megabit MRAM chip specially made for military satellites.
That is because Uunet and the few other giant data haulers that dominate Internet traffic don't have the fat, 45-megabit lines Brown would like in Albuquerque.
Sky Go Extra still works at slow internet speeds - however, Sky's other streaming services rely on the user having a 2 megabit per second connection.
Bluetooth, a popular protocol for short-range networking, zips along at up to a megabit per second, but it bogs down when more than eight devices are linked up.
Less radically, you could keep the status quo for bit traffic under 1 megabit per second but declare anything over that a new ball game--an unregulated ball game.
"We can offer 10-megabit-per-second connections over the Internet, " boasts Scaglia.
The long-awaited technology is designed to replace cables and link notebooks, printers, mobile phones, handheld devices, and even car systems at data rates up to 1 megabit per second.
Meanwhile, Japan's GIBN is setting up an experimental 156 megabit link between Kyushu University and Cleveland Clinic in the U.S., making possible online consultation -- even advice about on-going surgery.
Arraycomm has developed a technology called i-Burst that it says can deliver a sustained data speed of one megabit per second over distances as far as five miles from the base station, during testing in Sydney, Australia.
Standardized by the Advanced Television Systems Committee and formally adopted as the ATSC Mobile DTV Standard, the new technology allows broadcasters to use a portion of the existing 19.4 Megabit-per-second DTV channel capacity to transmit data with extremely robust characteristics suitable for mobile, pedestrian and handheld applications.
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Four months after he joined Toshiba in 1971, Masuoka, who had just received a doctorate from Tohoku University, invented a type of memory known as SAMOS. After five years at Toshiba, he invented another type and was moved to the semiconductor production division, where he developed a 1-megabit DRAM.
Baker, 39, moved to a larger house with all the amenities, but his experience underscored a simple fact that most city-dwellers ignore: Even in a prosperous country like Britain, hundreds of thousands of people still lack high-speed Internet service, particularly in rural areas, where homes are just too far from telephone exchanges to get a megabit connection.
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