Paul Kapustka's Blog
« If Ma Bell can return, so can Ricochet | Main | Spectrum Reform -- From Ted Stevens »
March 07, 2006
Forget Origami -- get me one of them WiMAX cards!
SAN FRANCISCO -- While the media masses swarmed around the Origami prototype PCs at the Intel Dev Forum today, I was trying to see if I could swipe the WiMAX PC card, a product due out later this year. Gimme WiMAX! Give it to me NOW!
Other cool non-Origami announcements from Sean Maloney's afternoon keynote included Intel's development of a programmable WiMAX radio chip that would let equipment vendors build base stations that could communicate at three different bands of spectrum -- 2.3-2.5 Ghz, 3.5 Ghz and 5 Ghz. Such a chip could remove a huge stumbling block for WiMAX acceptance and costs, since currently products must be built specifically for each spectrum band.
More later from the talk (well, probably tomorrow later since I also have to produce a video clip. But the bonus! We'll link to that tomorrow as well so you can see the "Origami" live).
Posted by paul at March 7, 2006 04:49 PM