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Mitsubishi Gets Wireless HD Interface

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 21st, 2008

Amimon has been selected by Mitsubishi to offer a High-Definition LCD TV for the Japanese market with an integrated HD wireless link.
The Mitsubishi product will come embedded with Amimon’s wireless technology, capable of delivering uncompressed HD video streams wirelessly. The wireless HDTV is a two-piece system comprised of a slim and thin LCD [...]

Nine Wireless Companies to Watch

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 15th, 2008

Oops there goes a billion kilowatt dam.

Network World’s article Nine wireless companies to watch, focuses on products and services that can impact corporate computing. What topped their list? RedFly from Celio.
Redfly Makes Your Smartphone a Laptop. It’s a smartphone terminal, not unlike the ill-fated Palm Folio, with an eight-inch screen and full keyboard. It enables [...]

Intel Dedicated Graphics Chip

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 4th, 2008

Intel today announced the first technical details of a new family of dedicated chips, code-named Larrabee, that will be available in late 2009 or early 2010. Intel is releasing the details of its plans ahead of the Siggraph industry conference in Los Angeles, which starts Aug. 11. It will compete directly with Nvidia and ATI [...]

More HDTV Homenet Chips

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 30th, 2008

Celeno Communications, a startup designing a variant of Wi-Fi chips geared for video, has closed a $16 million funding round led by Cisco Systems, reports EE Times.
Celeno is currently sampling a 5 GHz chip set for carrying video at distances up to 120 feet, according to the company. The new funding will help the company [...]

WHDI: Angling for Wireless HD

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 23rd, 2008

Today Amimon, Hitachi, Motorola, Samsung, Sharp, and Sony announced the formation of the WHDI working group with the goal of establishing the WHDI standard for Wireless HDTV connections. The group’s intention is to complete the new standard in 2008.
WHDI operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band (FAQ) to enable robust wireless delivery of “uncompressed” HD video [...]

WiMAX Gets Cheaper - Theoretically

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 15th, 2008

More than 240 new laptops are scheduled to be launched Tuesday using Intel’s Centrino 2 platform the faster, lower power laptop platform that includes MIMO for both WiFi and WiMAX. 802.11n Wi-Fi will come standard, with three MIMO antennas in the lid, which can also be used for the WiMAX option.

The Intel WiMAXWiFi Link 5350 [...]

Centrino 2 Arrives

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 13th, 2008

Intel is rolling out its next generation laptop platform on Monday. Previously codenamed Montevina, Intel says the new Centrino 2 platform, provides faster performance with longer battery life by using the Penryn 45nm Core 2 Duo processor with a variety of support chips.
The 45nm Penryn processor, teamed with Intel’s Mobile 4 Express chipset (formerly codenamed [...]

WiMAX Forum Certifies 2.5GHz Gear: Good to Go

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 17th, 2008

The WiMAX Forum today announced the first ten 2.5 GHz Mobile WiMAX products to receive the WiMAX Forum Certified Seal of Approval.

The announcement included four base stations and six mobile station modules (also known as terminals) operating in the 2.5 GHz frequency band from eight WiMAX Forum member companies.
They include basestation and client [...]

Freescale Integrates Zigbee

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 17th, 2008

Freescale Semiconductor is now sampling the next-generation MC13224 device in its single-chip IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee Platform-in-Package. This family is based on IEEE® 802.15.4 technology, optimized for low cost, low-power, real-time remote monitoring and control.

The integrated chip contains a 32-bit ARM7 microcontroller and is designed for a range of wireless applications, including energy management, commercial building automation, [...]

AMD Rolls Out Mobile Platform

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 4th, 2008

AMD today formally introduced its new notebook platform, which has been referred to under the code-name of Puma. Major laptop makers including HP, Dell, Acer and Toshiba have already agreed to use it.
The Turion X2 Ultra chip (formerly code-named “Griffin”), is a CPU with two K8 cores (the same cores used in the Athlon [...]