Argentina manufactures last generation nanochips

A team of argentine engineers developed a nanochip capable of optical fiber communications of 40 gigabits per second, an equivalent of ten thousand high definition television channels.

“We are 40 engineers, all Argentina natives. Most of us graduated from the Digital Communications Lab of Cordoba’s National University”, said Oscar Agazzi, president of ClariPhy Argentina S.A.

“Perhaps in a short while vast regions of the planet will be crossed by an immense amount of optical fiber networks that altogether will form a gigantic invisible spiderweb, around which all type of information in the field of the communications will circulate”, predicts Agazzi. 

“The information can travel by satellite links or other routes, but at the present time the optical fiber is the most economic one. Nowadays there are optical cables that cross the Atlantic containing a pile of encapsulated optical fibers in a protective package thrown to the bottom of the ocean by a ship.

The information that goes to the Internet, for example, can be transmitted through these optical fibers”, explains.

The company presided by Agazzi has developed nanochips in CMOS - using integrated circuits digital technology - of 65 and 40 nanometers. “With a 40 nanometers gigabits per second nanochip is possible to make communications in a 40 gigabytes per second speed. In order to give an idea that represents a transmission equivalent to ten thousand high resolution television channels”, emphasized Agazzi.