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by londons_explore 2434 days ago
I think it will happen, because phased array systems are being developed for 5G, next-gen WiFi, etc. Lots of players in the ASIC design game are designing similar hardware, and in the volumes spacex presumably wants to order, I think they'd be totally happy to spin a chip putting together a few hundred phase shifters and amplifiers in-front of a regular DSL modem SoC.