IDF: Intel Promises WiMax Equipment by Next Year
By Bryan Gardiner
PerlmutterWe've been hearing about it for years, especially from Intel. WiMax will bring "true mobile connectivity." WiMax will be a superior fourth generation network. WiMax will deliver broadband wireless internet service at speeds five times faster than 3G networks. And yet, despite all these promises, the mobile standard (IEEE 802.16) has remained a hyped concept instead of a viable option for the public at large.
That's about to change, according to Intel. With a planned $5 billion dollar build-out by Sprint, a growing ecosystem of WiMax device manufacturers, and some progress on the interoperability and standard fronts, the wireless technology is about to go public in a big way, according to the chipmaker.
Mirroring Paul Otellini's comments yesterday, David Perlmutter (pictured right), the company's senior vice president of the mobility group, promised that consumers will see WiMax-enabled notebooks in 2008. For real, this time.
During his talk at this morning's IDF, Perlmutter reiterated that companies like Acer, Lenovo, Panasonic and Toshiba have all signed up to ship laptops with Intel's embedded WiMax/Wi-Fi module, called Echo Peak. The module will be offered in notebooks based on Intel's next generation of Centrino processors, code-named Montevina for now. So I guess that's one part of the puzzle. Now, we'll have to see if the networks are in place next year for those projected 150 million people referenced yesterday.
PerlmutterWe've been hearing about it for years, especially from Intel. WiMax will bring "true mobile connectivity." WiMax will be a superior fourth generation network. WiMax will deliver broadband wireless internet service at speeds five times faster than 3G networks. And yet, despite all these promises, the mobile standard (IEEE 802.16) has remained a hyped concept instead of a viable option for the public at large.
That's about to change, according to Intel. With a planned $5 billion dollar build-out by Sprint, a growing ecosystem of WiMax device manufacturers, and some progress on the interoperability and standard fronts, the wireless technology is about to go public in a big way, according to the chipmaker.
Mirroring Paul Otellini's comments yesterday, David Perlmutter (pictured right), the company's senior vice president of the mobility group, promised that consumers will see WiMax-enabled notebooks in 2008. For real, this time.
During his talk at this morning's IDF, Perlmutter reiterated that companies like Acer, Lenovo, Panasonic and Toshiba have all signed up to ship laptops with Intel's embedded WiMax/Wi-Fi module, called Echo Peak. The module will be offered in notebooks based on Intel's next generation of Centrino processors, code-named Montevina for now. So I guess that's one part of the puzzle. Now, we'll have to see if the networks are in place next year for those projected 150 million people referenced yesterday.
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