Fiber optic cable chip breakthrough... You could say the average internet traffic in the world is about a petabit per second. What we transmit is two times that, Jrgensen told New Scientist. Its an incredibly large amount of data that were sending through, essentially, less than a square millimeter [of cable]. It just goes to show that we can go so much further than we are today with internet connections. With more research, it could enable the creation of simple, single chips that can send vastly more data than existing models. This could ultimately cut energy costs and increase bandwidth in data transmissions. The chip isnt yet complete, though. It still needs a single laser and devices to encode data into each of the output streams. Moreover, Jrgensen thinks that they can improve on the current setup and create an even smaller on-chip design about the size of a matchbox. The goal is to shrink the equipment down to the silicon level. Tick tick tick.. https://scienceandstuff.com/new-chip-transmits-1-84-petabits-of-data-every-second/