Intel to Release WiMax Chip 104
david writes "According to CNET News, Intel plans to release their first WiMax chip on Monday. 'The world's largest chipmaker sees in WiMax a potential profit source that it hopes will become as popular as its shorter-range cousin, Wi-Fi. Intel also believes it will stimulate computer sales in emerging markets where high-speed Internet access is unavailable or prohibitively expensive.'"
You know who is interested in this? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Does WiMax do adhoc networking? (Score:5, Interesting)
"Unlike Wi-Fi, whose ad hoc networks can be set up by anyone to connect a single house or office, WiMax is engineered to cover an entire city via base stations dispersed around a metropolitan area. So-called client devices, akin to a cable or DSL modem and built with a WiMax chip like Intel's, then pick the signal up. When connected to a PC, the signal becomes a high-speed wireless connection. "
buzz on the street is HSPDA neither Max nor Bro (Score:1, Interesting)
Neither wimax nor wibro.
HSPDA is triple threats (Voice,DATA,DMB all in one)
I am not sure how us is planning for but it looks like eurpose and asia is ready to jump on HSPDA.
WiMin wiped out (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:You know who is interested in this? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:So to stimulate sales (Score:2, Interesting)
All popular technology tends to start out proprietary and expensive. Remember when blank DVDs were too expensive for the common person to buy? Now they're a dollar or so apiece! Maybe this technology will catch on too... I guess time and society will tell.
Re:Services? (Score:2, Interesting)
Solar Interference? (Score:3, Interesting)
http://sunbase.nict.go.jp/solar/denpa/index.htm
or
http://www.ips.gov.au/Main.php?CatID=5
Lots more can be found at
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/SOLAR/IAUWGdoc.htm
Wont these events cause interference? Or is the intensity from the solar events just too low?
Great WiMax overview on DailyWireless.org (Score:3, Interesting)