Sony developed a wireless technology for its HDTVs’ internal making them thinner
Despite engineers’ efforts, current wired connections tend to reach their limits. So, consumer electronics manufacturers have to either add more circuits or find some alternative technological solutions. Sony have just developed a millimeter-wave wireless intra-connection technology that realizes high speed wireless data transfer inside electronic products such as television sets. And it’s some pretty serious data throughputs, which is 11 Gbps over a distance of 14 mm, with power consumption of 70 mW. Interestingly, the distance can be pushed for up to 50 mm by adding secondary antennas. 
Sony explains that millimeter-wave refers to electromagnetic waves with a frequency of 30 GHz to 300 GHz, and wavelength between 1 mm to 10 mm. With their high frequency, millimeter-waves are suited to ultra high speed data transfer, while another advantage is their ability to transfer data using only very small antennas.
The company has integrated highly energy efficient millimeter-wave circuits on 40nm-CMOS-LSIs with an active footprint of just 0.13 square mm including both the transmitter and the receiver, enabling a very impressive level of miniaturization for all the devices using this technology.
In short, the main advantage provided by the implementation of such technology would be a serious cut-back in the size of the products using it. No wires would first and foremost translate into even thinner HDTVs than the ones we currently see on the market, which would bring that ideal of a paper-thin display even closer.
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