The opto chip's speed also stands to benefit businesses that transmit large amounts of data around the globe, and the military could use it to improve navigation systems for ships and aircraft.
Samsung used an adaptive array transceiver using 64 antenna elements to obtain a speed of up to 1.056 Gbps to transmit the signal up to two kilometers.
Dai and the Sutardjas next went after networking products, designing a chip that would transmit data through Ethernet ports at a billion bits per second, ten times the speed of the then current standard.