Alphabet has announced a new development for Taara's technology that could lead to low-cost, high-speed internet connectivity, even in far-flung locations. Taara's general manager, Mahesh Krishnaswamy,

Google's Taara chip could bring Internet connections to areas previously unreachable by existing technology, with speeds on-par with fiber.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.

With today's big news, the core functionality of Taara Lightbridge has been reduced from the size of a traffic light to the size of a fingernail. That's the kind of breakthrough that takes ideas over the finish line to become real-life technology used by many.

The project that Google has been working on is code-named Taara, and the team working on it announced on Friday a new, next-generation chip that it believes can make light-based, high-speed internet a reality.

Google's parent company Alphabet’s X division has made a significant breakthrough in its Taara project by developing a silicon photonic chip that enhances

Taara, a moonshot project under Google's parent Alphabet, can now beam internet through the air using a photonic chip about the size of a fingernail.