Whatever the case, this new chip is certainly a huge breakthrough that could help connect the most remote parts of the world to the World Wide Web, where traditional internet connections are infeasible.
“Today, about 3 billion people are still unconnected, and there is a dire need to bring them online,” Taara General Manager Mahesh Krishnaswamy told Wired. He added that even connected people have abysmally slow speeds, barely fast enough to support streaming.
Other initiatives, like Starlink, are significant but don’t solve all the problems, as in denser areas, many people have to share the transmission, and each gets less bandwidth and slower speeds. “We can offer 10, if not 100 times more bandwidth to an end user than a typical Starlink antenna, and do it for a fraction of the cost,” he added.