Author: Fay Pu | Published on: June 23, 2025, 15:15 | Categories: Optoelectronics, Network Communication Equipment, Display Panels

X Display Company (XDC) recently unveiled a revolutionary technology — a high-speed display capable of reaching millions of frames per second (FPS).
While the company uses the term “FPS,” familiar to gamers, the system isn’t designed for gaming or human vision. Instead, it refers to ultra-high-speed data transmission between machines.

This “display system” is actually a transmitter-receiver setup, consisting of two main components:

• Transmitter (left in the image below): A microLED ultra-high-speed display with thousands of light-emitting units, spanning a range of wavelengths.

• Receiver (right in the image below): A high-frame-rate camera that captures and decodes the visual data transmitted by the display.

The system operates by having the display emit structured light patterns at a rate of millions of frames per second (FPS), with each frame carrying digitally encoded data. A high-speed camera receives the light signals and decodes them, enabling wireless high-speed communication.

According to XDC, with continued technological advancement, data transmission rates of 1TB/s (terabyte per second) could be achieved—surpassing the speed of today’s fastest network interfaces, though still below the upcoming 1600G (1.6Tb/s) technologies. The system is two to three times more energy-efficient than current 800G optical transceivers, offering particular value for data centers, where network and cooling power consumption represent a major portion of operating costs.

"Air can transmit data at megahertz speeds, offering a transformative prospect for cloud infrastructure," said Nikhil Jain, XDC’s Director of Photonics and Strategic Partnerships. "We are proud to introduce the world’s fastest display and display-based optical communication, enabling massive data transfer through free space rather than bulky fiber bundles."

XDC’s interconnect architecture eliminates the need for physical fiber or copper wires, giving large-scale data centers greater flexibility and easier management. The system can also dynamically adjust data transmission paths and bandwidth allocation based on demand, simplifying data center operations.

However, transitioning from fiber or copper to transmission through air—or even vacuum—would require a significant overhaul of server and data center infrastructure. This shift is not something that can be accomplished by simply retrofitting existing facilities; it may demand building entirely new data centers from the ground up.

While XDC’s new technology is theoretically promising, whether it can move beyond niche applications or special-use cases to broader deployment in data centers remains to be seen.
 

（首圖來源：AI）