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According to the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), China is leading the global race to develop usable 6G network technology, having patented 35% of the nearly 38,000 patents related to the technology.
A significant portion of China’s technology has already been patented in artificial intelligence, although the use it makes for networks with terahertz waves is not clear – a frequency 1,000 times higher than that used currently in gigahertz technology.
The Asian country hopes to begin deploying finished 6G technology in 2030, with speeds of up to 50 gigabits per second (which is 10 times faster data transfer speed than the best M.2 SSD drives can currently handle).
