Intel wins mobile WiMax chip deal with Nokia
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Intel Corp  said on Wednesday  it had won a mobile WiMax chip order from the world's top  cellphone maker Nokia , which will use its  semiconductors in Internet-focused devices from 2008.
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Intel on Thursday introduced tri-mode Wi-Fi support for its Centrino mobile-processor platform, as well as software to make it easier for businesses to set up a wireless connection to any available network at maximum speed.
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A consortium led by a Japanese telecom and backed by Intel will receive one of two WiMax licenses to be awarded by the Japanese government.
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Infineon Technologies AG has announced it would supply baseband and radio frequency chips for GSM mobile phones from Nokia Corp.  Previously, Nokia bought its baseband chips from Infineon rival Texas Instruments Inc.
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After seeing little success with the reference designs it created for Microsoft&#39;s smartphone platform, Intel will now work with Symbian to create reference platforms for 3G handsets.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel (Quote, Chart) is advancing its wireless strategy, thanks to an investment partnership with cellular pioneer Craig McCaw&#39;s Clearwire.
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Intel may deliver WiMax technology more quickly to mobile users by including it as an option for ultramobile devices based on the company&#39;s Menlow platform, according to an Intel executive.Intel&#39;s integration of WiMax technology will come in notebooks based on the company&#39;s Montevina platform, an upgrade to the mobile Centrino platform, due out in the second half of 2008. However, it is possible that Intel will also deliver WiMax technology to ultraportables and mobile Internet devices based on the Menlow platform sometime in 2008, said Mooly Eden, vice president and general manager, Intel Mobile Platforms Group.Intel is already developing a WiMax silicon chip codenamed Baxter Peak for mobile devices. Last year, Nokia said it would use Baxter Peak on its WiMax-enabled N-series Internet tablets, expected to ship in 2008.&quot;Baxter Peak is not a &#39;required&#39; part of the Menlow platform,&quot; said Kari Aakre, an Intel spokeswoman. It will be an option similar to how Echo Peak is an option for Centrino notebooks based on the Montevina mobile platform, Aakre said. Echo Peak is a minicard that integrates WiMax and Wi-Fi technology on one chip.The Menlow platform is a set of components, including the low-power Silverthorne processor and Poulsbo chipset, that run ultramobile devices. Intel didn&#39;t release further details on the platform.Adoption of WiMax is expected to take off in 2009, and Intel wants to deliver WiMax clients quicker to boost adoption of the technology, Eden said. Intel is trying to move in parallel with wireless carriers, which expect WiMax-enabled mobile devices to hit the market as the networks are established.&quot;When you&#39;re trying to create a market, you always start at the infant stages,&quot; Eden said.Intel is already testing WiMax, including in Japan and Russia.&#160;A consortium including Intel and Japanese telecom company KDDI will receive one of two WiMax licenses to be awarded by the Japanese government. Intel is assisting Russian company Comstar UTS in building a nationwide WiMax-based network.Menlow-based devices will ship in the first half of 2008. Intel also said that it will display ultramobile PCs based on Menlow architecture from vendors including Asus, BenQ, and Lenovo at the Consumer Electronics Show at Las Vegas this week. The Menlow platform,&#160;announced at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing in April, will be followed in 2009 by the Moorestown platform, which Intel detailed in September.The company is also developing Diamondville, an ultramobile processor bearing features similar to the Silverthorne processor.Though WiMax has availability and power consumption issues, Intel is trying to get carriers building networks to establish WiMax as a standard, said Dean McCarron, founder and principal at analyst firm Mercury Research.&quot;Intel wants to make sure that there is a readily available platform that can use WiMax and that it&#39;s worth the while of wireless providers to support WiMax,&quot; McCarron said.If Intel can tackle the power-consumption issues and provide wide-area network access through its products, adoption of the technology may increase, McCarron said.
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(InfoWorld) - Just weeks before launching its new Centrino notebook platform, IntelÂ said Wednesday it had cancelled plans to provide wireless access with an HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access) module built by Nokia. Instead, the next-generation Centrino Duo platform, code-named "Santa Rosa," will rely solely on Wi-Fi technology to give mobile PC users wireless Internet access. Intel plans to launch the platform in the second quarter of 2007. Intel had first announced the partnership in September, saying the Nokia module would be an ingredient in its improved Centrino Duo platform, a recipe for wireless-enabled notebooks with long battery life centered around Intel's Core 2 Duo processor. But Intel has now decided that notebook vendors would not be willing to pay enough to justify the investment. "After doing further analysis, we decided it wasn't a good enough ROI to bring that product to the notebook market now. But that doesn't change the value proposition of Santa Rosa at all," said Intel spokeswoman Connie Brown. The company still plans to use HSDPA in future platforms. "We will continue to look into embedding 3G capability at some time. It's certainly on the table, but we're not ready to announce anything at this time," Brown said. In the original announcement, Intel said that adding an HSDPA module would complement its Wi-Fi component by letting notebook users gain wireless broadband connectivity through a popular international standard. The partnership was supposed to assign Intel the tasks of platform design, software, integration and support, and sales and marketing. Nokia was to manufacture the module as well as share its expertise in 3G HSDPA, connectivity products, and carrier relationships. Now, Intel will provide all notebook connectivity with its "Kedron" Next-Gen Wireless-N card, an embedded network adapter that uses the IEEE 802.11 Draft-N standard, as well as existing a, b, and g standards.Â Intel announced that card in January, ahead of the IEEE body's official adoption of the new standard. The new wireless card will allow notebook PC users to share five times the data at twice the range of their current 802.11a/g cards, giving them far better performance with downloading music and streaming high-definition video, Intel said. Notebook vendors including Acer, AsusTek, Gateway, and Toshiba have already begun selling the card in PCs, while Dell and Hewlett-PackardÂ are expected to wait for the full Santa Rosa system. Despite Intel's judgement about weak demand for HSDPA, the standard remains popular with cell-phone vendors. AtÂ the 3GSM trade show in BarcelonaÂ this week, Qualcomm announced plans to use HSDPA-based chips to deliver mobile television to handhelds, while Samsung said its new Ultra 12.9 slide-design cell phone would use HSDPA as part of its tri-band data scheme. And notebook users will be able to use the standard by the third quarter of 2007, according to an announcement by Sony Ericsson Mobile CommunicationsÂ on Feb. 7 that it would use HSDPA in the PC300, a mobile broadband access card for Mac and PC laptops. In the meantime, users could also resort to EV-DO, a slightly slower wireless standard available in notebooks from Sony, Gateway, and Lenovo, said Richard Shim, a senior research analyst with IDC. "The ultimate fallout is that the proliferation of cellular wide area networks just took a big hit," Shim said. "When HSDPA is built into chipsets, it gets the volume of users up. But without that incentive to the carriers, it hurts the forecast for building out new networks." Â
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Intel Corp. INTC.O on Thursday  said it has upgraded the wireless networking capabilities of  its Centrino line of notebook computer chips to allow broader  network access with improved security.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - Intel and Nokia will jointly  develop smart phones that run on the Symbian operating system,  the two tech giants said on Tuesday, unveiling their first  major cooperative effort in cell phones.
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Intel ha presentato ieri, allâ Intel Developer Forum di San Francisco, il nuovo chip Rosedale per le reti wireless WiMAX, il nuovo protocollo di comunicazione wi-fi conosciuto anche come IEEE 802.16-2004.
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Mobile technology firm Nokia  (NOK1V.HE) said on Thursday it had developed an HSDPA (High  Speed Downlink Packet Access) module for notebook computers  which Intel Corp.  will provide to manufacturers.
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ZDNet&#39;s survey of IT professionals in August kept Wired &amp; Wireless on top for the 18th month in a row. Intel and Nokia will jointly develop smart phones that run on the Symbian operating system, unveiling
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Intel says it has completed the design of its first mobile WiMax chip, which it hopes will begin appearing in notebooks as early as 2008. Notably, the chipmaker said it plans to integrate that chip with Wi-Fi to create a chipset it calls WiMax Connection 2300.
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InfoWorld - Intel may deliver WiMax technology more quickly to mobile users by including it as an option for ultramobile devices based on the company's Menlow platform, according to an Intel executive.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp. will work with Clearwire Corp., a wireless Internet service provider founded by cellular pioneer Craig McCaw, on future networks based on WiMax wireless broadband technology.
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BUSAN, South Korea - Intel Corp. has taken another baby step on its roadmap for broadband wireless chips, saying Tuesday (Sept. 7) that it is sampling its WiMAX chip to &quot;strategic partners&quot; in preparation for a wide-scale rollout in 2005.