Centrino to connect with all Wi-Fi standards
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Intel on Thursday announced a component that&#39;s compatible with all Wi-Fi standards, which will let the chipmaker reach the full audience of individuals who want to wirelessly connect to local area networks.
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While 802.11n isn't yet an official standard, Wi-Fi equipment based on the latest draft of the specification is fast, reliable and reasonably interoperable.
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Intel Thursday announced the latest WLAN chipset for the next generation of its Centrino wireless product set. The new radio chipset will transmit on either the 2.4-GHz or 5-GHz bands, so it can support 802.
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New component will help next generation of Intel's wireless chip reach full audience for Wi-Fi.
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Wi-Fi N, WiMAX and HSDPA on laptops next year Comment Intel has used the platform of its developer conference this week to reveal a roadmap for future wireless connectivity that will take in at least three different types of broadband connectivity for PCs.â¦
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Broadcom said its Wi-Fi compatible BroadRange technology complies with IEEE 802.11 standards and could be integrated into a wide range of Wi-Fi products, from notebook PCs to routers and mobile phones.
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Punts 802.11a kit at gamers, multi-room music streamers
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Fulfilling a long-time goal, Intel Corp. is set to introduce on Thursday its first chip set that supports all three current forms of Wi-Fi, according to sources familiar with the announcement.
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AUSTIN, Texas, June 25  /PRNewswire/ -- Interoperability certification for high-performance Wi-Fi gear is now underway.
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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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InfoWorld - Several laptop vendors plan to announce support for an upcoming version of Intel&#39;s&#160;Centrino platform that uses WiMax&#160;wide-area networking technology -- but Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Apple are not expected to be among them.
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Ziff Davis - Symbol's 'access port' will support 802.11a, b and g simultaneously.
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Next week, the Wi-Fi Alliance will release Wi-Fi Multimedia, or WMM, an interim standard that will provide early quality-of-service functionality for multimedia equipment based on the emerging 802.
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Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) 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 Pentium M processors, along with Intel 855 chipset family and the Intel PRO/Wireless Network Connection family, are key components of Intel Centrino mobile technology -- Intel&#39;s best technology for mobile computing.
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Intel gave its Centrino laptop package a speed boost this week with the release of a new, faster Pentium M processor. The Centrino package includes a Pentium M processor, a PC chip set, and a WLAN (wireless LAN) chip set.
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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