Virtus Chipset Sends Data 1,000x Faster Than Bluetooth, Asian Scientist, 2012. [img=http://www.asianscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Virtus-Chipset-Sends-Data-1000x-Faster-Than-Bluetooth.jpg] Scientists in Singapore have invented a revolutionary microchip that can transfer a typical two-hour, eight-gigabyteDVD movie in just half a minute. The chipset employs wireless millimeter-wave (mm-wave) technology developed by scientists from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research. Named the VIRTUS chipset, it cantransmit two gigabits of data per second, or 1,000 times faster than today’s standard Bluetooth technology (v2.0+EDR’s maximum application throughput of 2.1Mbps). By using this new chipset, its inventors say that low-power applications such as smart phones and tablets can be used to transmit/receive data between platforms, like projectors and TVs, without the need for cables.