Intel drops plans to make Grantsdale chip a Wi-Fi access point
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Intel Corp. no longer plans to turn its latest batch of chip sets into wireless access points, citing a lack of interest from PC vendors and the proliferation of stand-alone access points.
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In another change of plans, semiconductor giant Intel Corp. canceled a project Thursday to develop a chip for projection TVs and said it planned to focus its resources in other areas.
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Move is the latest setback for the chip Intel once billed as an industry standard.
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Although the IEEE 802.11n wireless standard isn't expected to be ratified before early 2008, Intel plans to include a pre-standard version of the wireless networking technology in its Centrino chips next year.
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Intel Corp. INTC.O on Thursday  canceled plans to introduce its highest-speed desktop computer  chip, ending for now a 25-year run that has seen the speeds of  Intel's microprocessors increase by more than 750 times.
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Intel has dropped plans to include integrated Wi-Fi in its 915G/P and 925X chipsets. The chipsets - formerly codenamed Grantsdale - were due to have Wi-Fi access points built in at launch.
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Intel Corp. INTC.O on Thursday  said it has scrapped plans to enter the digital television chip  business, marking a retreat from a major component of its  consumer electronics initiative.
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Intel Corp.  on Thursday canceled plans to introduce its highest-speed desktop computer chip, ending for now a 25-year run that has seen the speeds of Intel's microprocessors increase by more than 750 times.
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Intel Corp. INTC.O on Thursday  said it has canceled its plan to enter the digital television  chip business, marking a major retreat from an initiative that  was intended to broaden the computer chip maker's market focus.
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Company says it won't sell equipment using the next-generation Wi-Fi standard, as Intel and others are, until it's IEEE-certified.
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Intel Corp. INTC.O on Thursday  canceled plans to introduce its highest-speed Pentium 4 chip  for desktop computers, marking another in a string of  unexpected product changes, cancellations and recalls at the  world's largest computer chip maker.
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Due to lack of demand, the chipmaker postpones plans to build Wi-Fi access points into desktop PCs this year.
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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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Intel Corp. and Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems Inc., yesterday announced the delivery of software that the companies hope will simplify the deployment of Wi-Fi networks for residential and small business users.
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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 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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Intel has started testing its WiMax chip, dubbed &quot;Rosedale.&quot; The chip manufacturer is shipping test versions of the chip to equipment manufacturers and is involved in trials with carriers.