Intel and Texas Instruments are aiming to put all of a cellphone’s semiconductor circuitry, not just processing and memory, onto a single microchip, creating what Intel calls “wireless Internet on-a-chip”. Texas Instruments has vowed to achieve full one-chip integration, except for a power amplifier, by the end of 2004. [...]
Intersil, today announced that it is now sampling their PRISM Duette, a dual-band chip set that is said to be compliant with 802.11a, 802.11b & 802.11g standards. The two-chip solution will demonstrate 54 Mbps wireless by streaming HDTV video at 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz at COMDEX in November. [...]
Winner of the high gain antenna prize goes to the Paul Allen Array (NPR ra) at Hat Creek, in Northern California. The Allen Telescope Array will use a matrix of 350 antennas, each 6 m diameter, resulting in an instrument with a collecting area exceeding that of a 100 m [...]
C/Net reports that Intel Capital will invest $150 million in 802.11 start-ups. “In the last six months all of the carriers have dramatically increased their interest” in developing Wi-Fi services, said Mark Christensen, vice president and director of Intel Capital’s Communication Sector. The company wants to encourage [...]
Broadband penetration is key to gaming revenue and South Korea has the highest per capita broadband penetration in the world. Now, X-Box and Playstation-2 are coming on-line. With 50 million Sony Playstation 2s expected in 2003, there’s going to be a huge demand for multi-player games in the Far East. [...]
Unlimited wireless web surfing using digital phones is getting more affordable. According to C/Net, five major U.S. cell phone carriers now offer all you can eat data services. Sprint PCS is offering some subscribers unlimited wireless Web surfing for $10 a month, over what they already [...]
The Industry Standard tells the story of the formation of Atheros. Atheros has single-handedly reshaped wireless LANs with their 5 GHz CMOS chips. Now they’re beginning to impact the broader telecommunications industry. Teresa Meng (left), the founder and CTO of Atheros, began as a professor at Stanford. Her [...]
In northeast England, EdenFaster, a community broadband project, is planning to deliver wireless broadband to ten thousand people, 500 businesses and 50 schools with off-the-shelf Wi-FI (802.11) gear from Entersys and Check Point. A nearby hill beams it into the valley. Repeaters create a wireless mesh between houses and a “walled [...]
The Ekahau Positioning Engine 2.0 for 802.11 wireless networks pinpoints the location of wireless PDAs, laptops and other 802.11 enabled devices to 3.5 ft. It provides real-time tracking in high-rise buildings and provides continuous tracking up to hundreds of locations per second. Ekahau’s patent pending location finding technology is [...]
Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association held their Wireless I.T. show, October 16-18, in Las Vegas and had some interesting press releases. Revenue potential Last year ring tones earned $1.3 billion dollars, mostly in Europe and Japan. To put that in perspective, the music [...]
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